Operation In Search of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Mumbai Circle 4

Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Dhanapala--
Author of the Rishabhapanchâśikâ. This has been edited by Klatt in the Journal of the German Oriental Society xxxiii, p. 45 fg. 1, App. pp. 85 and 92. 3, App. p. 28. Mentioned as the author of the Tilakamanjarî. 3, App. p. 91 (where Dhanapala is styled "a king's favourite"). This book, which is almost certainly in existence, has not yet been recovered. It is mentioned by Subhasîlagani, Weber, II., p. 1117. Aufrecht, in C. C., notes that it is quoted by Nami on Kâvyâlankára 16, 3. (Mr. Bhagvandas Kevaldas informs me at the time of writing that an incomplete copy does exist at Surat). According to a beautiful story in Merutanga's Prabandhachintamaņi the poet called his book after his own daughter in the following circumstances. He composed it from day to day and handed over each day's work to his patron Bhoja. When his patron and he fell out, the incomplete work was by order of the king destroyed, and Dhanapala saw no means of recovering what had cost him so much labour, or of finishing the work. Sitting sorrowful he was accosted by his daughter who asked him the cause of his grief. He told her, when she smiled and said that she knew all of his poem that had been composed by heart, so carefully had she committed it to memory from day to day. This proved to be the case, and the grateful poet called the poem by her name. Shastri Ramchandra'y edition, p. 99. (The Dhanapala of 3, Apr. p. 138 may be our poet. Devabhadra, the author of the Kathâratnakośa was a poet in Bhoja's court. 3, App. p. 91.)
Dhanapala was the author also of a Payalachchhi Namamâlâ, which he wrote in Samvat 1229. This has been edited by Bühler. No. 859 of this Report's collection is a copy of this rare book. Dhanapala tells us that he wrote this book for his sister Sandarî “who was walking in the blameless way," i. e., who had turned her back upon the world. It would seem as if Dhanapala, who was a convert to Jainism, was, so to say, converted with all his house. (Bühler differently.)
Dhanavijaya vachaka
Author of a Bhâshâvritti on the Lokanâlikasůtra, which he wrote apparently in Samvat 1141. When he wrote Vijaya