________________ 13 acknowledges at the end (verse 97). The collections of MSS. contain some works entitled Kriyanighantu, but none of them is known to have been composed by King Vira Pandya. In the history of the Pandya kingdom in South India Vira Pandya figures as the son and successor of King Parakrama Pandya and he seems to have reigned from about 1166 to 1180 A. C. Thus he was a contemporary of King Kumarapala and Acarya Hemacandra. If the king's Kriyanighanta comes to light, we may be in a position to ascertain the extent of its bearing on the KriyanirnayaPariccheda of Kavyasiksa. Among the earlier authors, Bana Bhatta is found to have great bearing on the author of Kavyasiksa. In Paricchedas III and IV the author quotes several passages from his Harsacarita, though he nowhere makes, any specific "reference to the source. While citing examples of poetic passages in prose, he always draws upon Harsacarita by Bana Bhatta, giving no examples from the well-known prose works by Subandhu, Dandin and Dhanapala or even from Kadambari by Bana Bhatta. Thus Harsacarita seems to be especially favourite to Vinayacandra. Bana Bhatta, the biographer of Emperor Harsa, was a contemparary of the Emperor, whose reign is dated 606 to 647 A. C. Thus Bana Bhatta, Bappa Bhatti, Acarya Hemacandra, Vira Pandya and Raviprabba Suri seem to have had considerable bearing on the author of Kavyasiksi. References to other authors and works : In his Kavyasiksa Acarya Vinayacandra also alludes to some other authors and some other works in addition to those mentioned above. In Pariccheda IV he enumerates names of sixteen eminent authors, viz., Vyasa, Valmiki, Trivikrama, Dhananjaya, Kalidasa, Magha, Bharavi, Bana, Gunadhya, Abhinandi, Sriharsa, King Bhoja, Subandhu, Dhanapala, Bilhana and Rajasekhara (p. 104 A). The authors are not enumerated in chronological sequence, but the latest among them seems to be Sribarsa, the author of Naisadhacarita. This mabakavya had already been popular in Gujarat through Poet Harihara during the time of Mahamatya Vastupala. Vinayacandra has cited cxamples from the works of some of the authors enumerated here, such as Kalidasa, Magha, Bbaravi, Bana, Abhinandi and Rajasekhara. In Pariccheda III the author refers to Magha, Bharavi, Kalidasa, Trivikrama and Dhanapala (p. 79). He also alludes to Sarvavarman, the author of Kataniya (pp. 8 and 110) as well as to Bharata, the author of Nafyasastra (pp. 137 and 147).
