Linganushasana

Author(s): Chimanlal D Dalal
Publisher: Central Library

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mahodadhi composed in Samvat 1197.1 It is to be seen whether these four works were composed by four different personages bearing the name of Vamana or by one person, who was both a grammarian and a rhetorician..
Vâmana, the author of the Lingânusâsana, and his times.The date of Vamana, the author of the Lingânusasana, can be fixed with certainty. He is posterior to the authors of the Chandra and Jainendra grammars, as these works are utilized by him in the present work. He has quoted one line of a verse which occurs in the Sisupalavadha of Magha.2 Magha was the grandson of Suprabhadeva, who was the minister of Varmalata, king of Bhinnamala. Varmalâta is mentioned in the Vasantgadh inscription of Samvat 682 (A. D. 625). Magha must have, therefore, flourished about the end of the seventh century A. D. While commenting on the phrase Rajârtha (Taru) in the 9th Kárikâ of the present work, Vâmana gives Jagattungasabha (Mg ) as an example of the case where the word Sabha (AT) forming the second part of a compound does not become neuter as it is preceded by a word indicating the name of a king and not meaning a king. Now history tells us that the Rashtrakûţa Emperor Govind III was called Jagattunga. Various grants of this king are discovered and his reign is put between 794-813 A. D.
This specification of the assembly of Jagattunga must have a special significance. It tells us not only that he was a contemporary of Jagattunga but that he must have been a member of his court. Vamana also mentions the name of Srîbhavana as a village. Śrîbhavana is mentioned in the sVaņi-Dindori and Radhanpur plates of the same king as a place where he spent the rainy season with his army, while going to subdue the southern kings of Kanchi and Vengî.
Vâmana's Lingânus'âsana quoted by later writers.--Vamana's Lingânuśâsana seems to have been an authoritative work of note, as
1 शालातुरीयशकटाङ्गजचन्द्रगोमिदिग्वनभर्तृहरिवामनभोजमुख्याः ।
मेधाविनः प्रवरदीपककारयुक्ताः प्रानिषेवितपदद्वितया जयन्ति।
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