Linganushasana

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

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for the benefit of the people. His drawing upon the Buddhist and Jain authors Chandra and Devanandi would also support the view about his leaning towards Buddhism and Jainism...
Conclusion.-It is true that one sealhes in vain the Kaśika, the Kavyalankarsûtravrtti and the Lingånusasana to find out indications to establish the identity of the authors of these works. But the old commentators of the Amarakośa quoti him both from the Kasika and . the Ligânuśâsana under the name of Vamana without any distinction and we have assigned one and the same period to the authors of the Kavyalan kärasútravrtti and the Lingânusâsana from quite independent data. The Kavyalankârasûtravịtti is described as favourite of poets (mafirat) and the Lingânusâśana is, likewise, as beneficial to poets (antalon)If it is assumed that there was one person Vamana, the author of all these works-a grammarian, poet, and rhetorician all combined. he would appear to have been at first at the court of Jayapida? and laterly probably through his oppressions to have left him and gone to the court of the Rashtrakůța Em ror Jagattunga who was at that time wielding paramount power. Such migrations of Kåshmerian poets were not rare. The poet Bilhana's example is too well-known to the students of the history of Sanskrta literature. Tagattunga I and Jayapida 779–808 A, D, were contemporaries and thus the date of Vamana is between the last quarter of the 8th and the first quarter of the 9th century. From other data we have arrived at the same date.
The Ms. material. The present edition of Vâmana's Lingânu. sásana has been based on a single palm-leaf ms. of the work with the commentary heitherto known. It is 101" inches long and 11" inches broad and consists of 42 leaves containing four lines each and is dated Samvat 1273 (1216 A. D.) The portions on the ft sides of the folios 35, 37 and 40 were niissing. The ms. belongs to the Sangha's Bhandar. in Phophalia Vada, Patan. Thre is in the palm leaf mss. of Bhandar in Santinatha's temple at Cambay a ms, of the text of the Kårikås (No. 266, folios 63-66) dated Samyat 1287 (1231 A. D.) and from that the late Dr. Peterson published in his third report the bare text, which had been edited very incorretly partly because of not reading the palm-leaf ms. correctly and the absence of a commentary to explain the real meaning of the aphoristic drikâs.
1 HTCT: TFT*?$: HEAT बभूवुः कवयस्तस्य वामनायाश्च मन्त्रिणः ॥
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