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Sivabbadra is not an exception At the very ontset, the author has made a few remarks ab ut his father and his royal di ciple. The name of the poet's father was Sulavan who is stated to have been the preceptor of king Prabhafijana?. The king is said to have been adept in composing melodious and enigmatic poetrya Sivabhadra, the author of Rāmakathā, i, e. the present Sivabhadrakavya, was thus the son of a king's preceptor.
Very little is known about king Prabhanjana, Indian History knows of only one Prabhasjana belonging to the hue of Parwajaka Mahārajas 3 Dr. Fleet notices that this Prabhañjana was the son of Devādhya and Damodara was the former's son while Hastjo was his grand son. The date of Hastin is known to be 475 A. D. Udyotanasūri has referred to one king Prabhanjana who was the author of Jusaharachariyat This bas been noticed by Prof. Velankar in his Jinaratnakosa.5
Prof, Velankar also notices three books having the title Prabhañjana. caritra. One by Mangarasa, the second by Yasod bara and the third anony. mous It is difficult to say anything about the heroes of these poems and their identity or otherwise with Prabbañjana, the disciple of Sivabhadra's Father. As to the latter Prabhañjana, we are not in a position to identify him writh the one of Parivrăjaka Mabärāja line, nor with the one referred to by Sivabhadra. It might be that all the three could have been identical or different. In case, all these Prabhanjanas might have been identical with the one referred to by Sivabhadca then, one cun conjecture that sivabhadra pould have flourished by about 425 A. D.
Santisori, the author of the coinwentary on Sivabhadrakavya is a wellknown personage in the bistory of Jujua monachisin. He has written comme Btaries on Vendavanakay), Ghatakar parahāv) 4, Chand radüta kavya, Nyāyavasarayartika, Tilakamanjari etc He lived in the eleventh century A.D.7 1. cf. Strabhadrakāvya (SBK), verse 6 :
प्रहालौ सत्यवतस्तस्याचार्यस्य सूनुना सत्यवतः ।।
नेयममाम्नायमिता रामकथेति शिवभद्रनाम्ना यामता ।। 2 Ibid, verse 4
अस्ति सतामतिमान्यः ख्यातो राजा प्रभजनो मतिमान्यः ।
प्रध्युतिरन्यायस्य धोत्रसुखा काव्ययुक्तिरन्यायस्य ।। 3. Corpus Inscriptionum, Indicarun, Vol III, Gupta Inscriptions, Fleet No. 22, p. 95. 4. Kuvalayamõlakotha of Ratnaprabha (edited by Dr. A. N. Upadhye), p. 3
सत्तण जो जसहरो जसहरचरिएण जणवए पयो ।
कलिमलपभंजणी च्चिय पभंजणो आसि गय-रिसि ॥ 8. p. 320. Jalgratin nigara by Prabhatjanaguru. 6. Jinorainakosa, p. 266. 7. For details, vide Introduction to Nyāyāvataravāritikavytti. (ed.) Dalsukhabhai
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