Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Kâśmir literature. In the group of Jaina works there is a copy of the Siddhaśabdârnava by Sahajakîrti, a lexicon that is quoted by Mallînâtha and mentioned by other writers, (No. 466).
CLASS VIII.--POETICS AND METRICS. In the class of Poetics and Metrics we have a mutilated copy of a work unknown before entitled Kâvyâlamkâraśiśuprabodha by Puñjarâja, (No. 210), an old manuscript of Rudrabhatta's Sringâratilaka, two copies of the Kâvyaprakasa with fragments of commentaries, two works of Appayadîkshita, and Bhânudatta's Rasataranginî, of which about a leaf
is wanting at the end, and his Puñjarâja, author of Rasamañjarî. Puñjarâja was the Kâyyâlamkârasisuprabodha.
the son of Jîyanendra and is
spoken of as the ornament of the Mâlaya circle and as belonging to the family of Srîmâļa. He is, therefore, the ame as the author of
the coinmentary on the SarasDhvanipradîpa, an- vata grammar. Punjarâja meno other work of the same.
tions another larger work of his, entitled Dhvanipradîpa ; (H., Appendix II). In the sixth chapter of the Rasatarangiņî, Bhânu
datta excuses himself from Bhânudatta.
giving details about certain points because he says they are given in the Rasamanjarî. From this it is clear that the author of both was the same; but there is some question as to his native country. In Professor Aufrecht's copy of the Rasamañjarî it is spoken of as 'Vidarbhabhůh,' or the land of the Vidarbhas, and the manuscript before me agrees with his. But Dr. Burnell in his Catalogue of the Tanjor Manuscripts calls him Maithila Bhânudatta, i. e., Bhânudatta, the native of Mithilâ, and the copy of the Rasamañjarî purchased by me in 1879 and another procured since the close of the year bave Vidchabin ûh instead of Vidarbha