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Saumillaka or the three Bhasa, Kaviputra and Saumillaka or Bhasa the son of Kavi and Saumillaka or Bhāsa and Saumilla the poet having his son or Bhāsa and Saumilla and Kaviputra or the son of Kavi, having ignored the compositions of these Kālidasa expresses a sense of humility unto them with the complex that his conposition in his present age may not acclaim the same popularity among the audience as those of theirs. Dr. Ramji Upādhyāy: Dr. V. V. Miráshi and S. A. Sabnis 10 slyle the three Bhasa, Kaviputia, Saumillaka or Bhasa, Saumilla, Kaviputra as dramatists ( play wrights). Bhāsa's tluiteen plays are too well known for the critics to gainsay their authenticity. Scholars like Dr. A. D. Pusalkar11 have already established their author as Bhasa beyond any dispute. Sąumilla or Saumillaka is still a controversial figure though I have tried to ascribe to his authorship the anonymous work- Vināvāsavadattam in my paper- "Sanjaya of Mälatimādhava having an impact on the authorship and date of Vināvā savadattam" read at the 32nd Session of the All India Oriental Conference Alimedabad (Nov 6-8 1985).
Kaviputra- if construed to be a playwright must denote a playwright of fabulous renown oi clse Kalidasa could hardly dare to have extolled him in such a laudable tone as to feel a sense of inferiority complex in comparision to his talent, Somila has been bracketed with Rāmila as the joint author of Sūdraka-Katha1ż the pature of which can hardly be preconceived as a play of tangible norm. It may have been a prose . version of the narrative of King Sūdraka versified by Gundahya in his Brhat Katha (KathaSarıtSāgara 13 Lambaka XII, Taranga VIII, Vetala 4) like the MudrārākşasanatakaKatha of Mahadeva 14
The playwright Kaviputra could be of no mean merits or else the prince among the poets Kalidasa could never have held him in higli esteem in line with Bhâsa and Saumillaka.
In my opinion "Sūdraka" the great, the author of Mşcohakatika, could have been in the mind of Kalidāsa whose deep sense of suggestiveness in his works strikes the head lines in the domain of literary criticism. "Kaviputra" must have been a popualar title of Sūdraka or else Kalidasa could never have felt that abject sense of humility unto him in alliance with Bhāsa and Saumilla oi Saumillaka. Bhāsa in his Pratijnayaugandharayaņa-II.1315 referring to Gopalaka and Palaka the two sons of Mahasena Pradyota along with Vasavadatta-their only sister; Barbaspatyan-arthaśāstram"16 in 'Pratiman ataka Act V". Gunadhya 1 7
