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ntary on Candi-g'ataka. It also calls him a master-poet and expert Viņā player, a dramatist who wrote all the ten varieties of Rūpakas mentioned by Bharata. In dancing he followed the school of Nandikesvara and propitiated S'iva in that way (M. K. pp. 219-220, 156-160, 166-168) that is by dancing before him or causing dance performences in that style. He has thus the title of Abhinava-Bharatā. cārya which is mentioned in the pras'astis of Samgita mimāṁsā including N. R. K. His work on the architecture of Jayastambhas inscribed on the slabs of his Jayastambha at Chitor has already been mentioned.
Thus Kumbha has to his credit two commentaries-one on Gitagovinda called Rasik apriyā and the other on Candis'ataka, four dramas in Mewadi, Kannad, Maharaştri and Rūpakas illustrating different types of drama and a work on architecture and also Sangita mimāmsā. Of these, manuscripts of Samgitamimāmsā, Gitagovinda commentary Rasika priyā, and a slab bearing a portion of his work on architecture are discovered. The Rasikapriyā has been published in the Kavyamala series of Nirnaya Sagara Press. The first volume of Samgitamiinamsā Pathya Ratna Kosa has been published in the Ganga Oriental series and the N. R. K. is being published in R. P. S.
Like most of us, Shri Harabilas Sarda marvels as to how could Kumbhā find leisure to study all this and time to write these works, engaged constantly as he was in warfare, building forts, defending and ruling his kingdom (p. 163). There have been kings in Indian History like Harsa, Bhoja etc. who were supposed to be learned and authors of literary works. (But as to Harșa, his authorship of the three plays had been suspected even in old times and it was supposed that a poet named Dhoyi wrote them). We have seen that the authorship of Samgitam māmsā is contested, between Kālasena and Kumbhakarņa. We have advanced a guess that probably the author was some pandita who first dedicated it to Kunibhakarna and later to Kāla-sena whose identity, however, we are not able to discover. The Ekalinga māhātmya was composed in the time of Kumbha and we find the following verses common in Pāțhyaratnakoșa and Ekalinga Māhātmya :
यः श्रुत्वा भरतं चतुभिरिखिलर्भाष्यश्च रत्नाकर सोपायं बहुशो विलोक्य निखिलानाट्यागमान् वीक्ष्य च । गौरीनन्दिमते, मतङ्ग शिवसंगीते सशार्दूलके दृष्टवा दंतिलदुर्गशक्तिभरिणतीस्ता नारदोक्तीरपि ॥
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(Fatto P08 quoted in M. K. p. 223) A comparative study of Samgitamimāņsā and Ekalinga Māhā.
1 Pandit Amritlal Bhojak cf Patan informs me that he has in his possession a manuscript of the commentary on Candi s'ataka,
