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“Kavi Puttra” of Kalidasa
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eşa Suryaprabho nāma rājā jatah purāriņā, bhāvi vidyadharadhisa-Cakravarti vinirmitah, Sa eva mantriputrāmś ca nijāmstasmai samarpayat, Bhäsa prabhāsa Siddhartha prahastaprabhrtin bahūn"
A Survey of the contents collected above brings to the fore the following few facts for recognition
Nanda reigning in Pataliputra had Kavi, Subandhu and Sakata his three ministers among whom Kavi was alligned by Canakya for the extirpation of Nanda. Pätali daughter of Mahendra-varma wedded to Putraka or Putra a Brahmana gave Pataliputra its name. Sūdraka the sovereign lord of Sobhävati reigned for more than hundred years. In the Madra Countries there was a King named Candraprabha son of Angāraprabha who produced a son named Süryaprabh in queen named Kirtimati. Suryaprabha had four ministers Bhasa, Mahartha, Prabhava and Siddhartha according to Kșemendra and Bhasa, Prabhasa, Siddhartha and Prahasta according to Somadeva. Guņādhya, ie one rich in virtues was the honorific title of Mālyavan of Pratisthanupura in Dakşinā patha who was Puspadanta in original as the son of Somadutta, a resident brāhmaṇa of Kausambi whose variant three appellations were Katyayana, Srutadhara and Vararuciḥ according to Kyemendra. 83
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Somadeva also construes Gunadhya as the title of Malyavän born in a town named Supratisthita. His two other names were Puspadanta and Vararuciḥ. 37 Supratisthita was in Mahanagari Kausāmbi. Somadeva describes Pamini as one of the pupils of Varșa to whom the New System Grammar (Vyakaranam uavam) revealed itself through the grace of mooilcrested god Siva and who outclassed all his contemporaries, 33 Kệemendra also construes Panini as the pupil of Varsa who obtained the system of New Grammar or New system of grammar by penance unto Sankara.36 These two Brhatkathā versions in Sanskrit (rendered by So radeva and Kremendra) describe Yogananda the reigning Nanda King who had Hiranyagupta as his son and Vararuci and ŝakafala as also Subandhu as his three ministers. Sakatala and Subandhu vied with each other for the supreme seat of a learned Brahmana in the court of Yogananda Yogananda preferred Subandhu. Sakatala brought Canakya in his own alliance
