Ritthnemichariyam Part 2

Author(s): Swayambhudev, Ramnish Tomar, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Vyāsa, Bharata, Bhāsa, Kālidāsa, Bāņa, Sri-harşa, Pingala, Daņdin, Bhämaha, Ravişeņa, Jinasena, Caturmukha, Svayambhū and Puşpadanta with few additions and omissions. Caturmukha (mostly in company of Svayambhū and Puşpadanta) has been remembered in this fashion in such Apabhramsa works as the Dhammaparikkhā (987) of Harişeņa, Harivamsapurāna of Dhavala (c. 11th cent.), Sakalavidhinidhāna (11th cent.) of Nayanandin, Jambūsāmicariya (1020) of Vīra, Rayaņakaramnda (1064) of Śricandra, Jinadattacariya (1218) of Lākhū alias Lakkhaņa, Suloyaņācariu of Devasena (12th or 13th cent.), Vāhuvalicariya (1398) of Dhanapāla. We have seen that some of these authors speak about Caturmukha in superlatives. If luck favours us some day with the discovery of any manuscripts of Caturmukha's works, it will be indeed a great day in the history of Apabhraṁsa studies.
Notes
(Abbreviations used : PC = Paumacariya; RC = Rițțāņemicariya; SC. = Svayambhūcchandas.) 1. For a detailed account see H. C. Bhayani (ed.) Paumacariu I
(1953), Introduction, pp. 3 ff; III (1960), Introduction, p. 37; ff. 2. See Paumacariu I, Introduction, p. 23; Svayambhūcchandas (ed.
H. D. Velankar, 1962), p. 242. 3. H. C. Bhayani, Indological Studies I (1992), 'The Apabhramsa
Poet Caturmukha', pp. 195-208. A part of that paper is incor
ported here. 4. This verse is also found at Nanditāļhya’s Gāthālaksana, 29.
The Prakrit Text Society is thankful to Prof. Ramsimh Tomar for making available for publication his edition of the Ritthanercariya over which he had been working since long and in view of great extent of the epic, it was quite an onerous task to complete it. As the first Kānda*, the Yādava-kānda, is available in the