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king Mukundadeva and not of the latter. Thus Mk evidently wrote his PS during the reign of Mukundadeva who is defnitely known to have ruled Orissa from 1559 to 1568 A. D. 20
The view about the so-called citation from RG in PS is not tenable. Though this is taken to be a quotation from RG2, it will be clear that the Prākrit portion cited by Mk which also occurs in RG22 is not Jagannātha's own composition. He quotes it from a still earlier work called Alankāraretnākara while criticising its author Sobhākara23. The author, while illustrating asama Alankāra, gives the verse in question as example". This is a famous example and quoted even by Mammața in his Kavya Prakāśa X. 4. In several other rbetorical works this verse has also been quoted. So there is no point in saying that Mk drew this exam. ple necessarily from RG. He must have taken it from a still earlier work like Alamkāra-ratnākara or Kārya Prakāśa25.
20 See History of Orissa, ed. by N. K. SAHU, p. 295 Footnote. 21 i) Prakrta-Sarvasvam, ed. by B. Swami, 1927.
ii) NITTI DOLCI, op. cit. p. 104. 22 See Rasagangādhara ( Kāvyamālā series ), p. 165.
23 See Alankāraratnākara ed. by C.R. DEVADHAR, Poona, 1942. Sobhākara's date is said to be the latter part of the 12th century. See Introduction to this work, p. XII. 24 ढुंढुंण्णंतो मरिहिसि कंटअकलिआई केअइवणाई।
मालइकुसुमसरिच्छं भमर भमतो ण पाविहिसि ।। This is once again cited on p. 211 in the same work.
25 In the absence of definite proof as to the source from which Mk quoted this verse, I have traced it to Kāvyaprakāśa. Mk seems to have also quoted several other verses from Kävyaprakāśa.
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