Prakritadhyaya

Author(s): Kramdishwar, Satyaranjan Banerjee, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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INTRODUOTION
dīśvara's Samkşiptasāra. So in the absenc of any conclusive evidence we cannot identify this Candidāsa with Candidevaśarmā of Prūkstadīpikā. Moreover, in the introductory verses the author Candidevašarmā describes himself as one who was born in the family of “Sobhākara" (sobhākarakulodbhava). Bat we do not know whether Caņdīdāsa, the commentator of Kavyaprakāśa, also belonged to that family. So these two Caņdīdāsas cannot be identified. It seems to us that Candidevasaramā of Prākertadāpikā is later than Candidāsa, the commentator of Kavyaprakāśa.
III The date of Kramadīśvara $ 59. As regards the date or antiquity of Kramadīśvara nothing oan be said definitely at present, as the materials at our disposal are scanty and meagre ; so bis date has remained undetermined as yet. Scholars are not even unanimous in this respect; they have attempted to place him either between Hem&candra (1088-1172 A. D.) and Vopadova (1250 A. D.)1 or after Vopadova. Zacharia has remarked that we can neither prove that Kramadiśvara flourished after Hemcandra, nor could we say that he had written his grammar before Hemacandra. Nitti-Doloi* has almost voiced the same opinion when she says that the date of Kramadīśvara between Hemcandra and Vopadeva can only be provisionally acceptable. In determining the age or antiquity of Kramadīśvara, let us discuss the problem anew.
$ 60. It is important to note, at least, for the antiquity of Kramadīśvara that he mentions in his sūtras such predecessors as Katantra (1st cent. A. D.), Dāndra (470-600 A. D.), Bhāgartti, Kșapaņaka and Vamana. It is again worth noting that the latesti of the authors oited by him is Vámana. Now, we have two Vāmadas -one is the author of an Alankāraśāstra, called Kavyalankārasūtra,
1) Belvalkar, S, K. Ibid, A. B. Keith places him in the 13th cent. A. D, Hist. Skt. Lit. p. 432.2) Colebrooke intends to place him after Vopadeva, op. Mis, Es. II. 3) BB. V. p. 26. 4) Los Gramm. Pkt. p. 130.5) 1994 afa
1967 (Sandhi 196, see also 106), 38tatfira fa 2175(Sandhi 342) and qyte4l fa altres (Samāsa 212); fragt afa Alfa: (Käraka 101) ; op. also 436 ; fagia face fa 79974: (Samāsa 407) s ECCT 04 Tafa farcela fer TH9: (Samāsa 168).