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DANDIN'S INDEBTEDNESS TO SUB 4NDHU
Maan Singh
Subandhu's influence on Dandın does not appear as much as op Bānal. By Dandın's time Bāna had probably eclipsed Subandhu's fame It is probably for this reason that Dandın who speaks very bighly of Bāna in his Avann unilaria does not mention, along with other poets and works5, Suhandhu or his prose romance Vasavadartā, already declared hy Bāna as a work which had brushed aside the pride of poets as soon as it reached their ears + He, however, speaks of a Subandhu who freed himself from Bindusāra's prison by captı. vating his heart by dramatising the story of Vatsarāja and who is thus obviously a different writer from the author of the extant prose romance Vasavadată 5 He refers to the story of Vasavadattā, though there is nothing to ascertain that he hints at the story as told in Subandhu's l'asgradania Dandin punningly states in bis description of the citizens of Kusumapura in the Avantisundart that people had an insatiable thirst for the rasa of the Kādambarys, and incorporates the story of Kādambari as told by Băna, though he differs from its continuation by his son. Thus he must owe more to Băna than to Subandhu.10 Still the influence of Subandhu's punning, pedantic and striking (vakroktipūrna) style can be witnessed at places in his prose romance.11 Some common words and expressions are particularly remarkable which he seems to owe to Subandhu. See, for instance, the following. The Vasavadattā 19
The AVANTISUNDARI (inclusive of the Dasa
kumāracarita proper) 16
2017 - (p. 14, line 2) pua. (p. 60, line 19) pun. (2) 2017 Pazing
-कण्टक कमलनालबंद बुष्टः (p. 18, line 1)
(p. 18, line 16)
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