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(Jalhana's Süktimuktavalı) may be identified as the famous minister of Sürya-prabha, son of Candraprabha and a grand son of Angära Prabha, the sovereigo lord of Sakalapuri in the Madra countries. Saumilla may be considered as his son (Bhasa eva Kavis tasya putrah Saumillakah) or he may be construed as the son of Kavi (Sūdraka King of Sobhāvari) in succession to Bhasa in the field of dramaturgy having composed Vināvåsavadattam, or Kaviputra inay be construed as Sukrácarya the author of Sukraniti the 4th son of Kavi, the first also being named Kavi (MbhKosa). The description of Sūdraka given in BỊhatkatha (BKM41)
"asti Sobhāvati naina nagari Sampadam nidhiḥ. bhuvo bhūşana-māleva bhūriratnavirajini." babhūva Sudrakas tasyā yaśasvi prthivipatiḥ. bhārgavādikatliāḥ kārśyam yad viracaritair yayuh." tasya Somaprabhā nāma lāvanyāmộtaśālins. babhūva vallabhā cittakailavašalini along with Malaviyo mahāsattavaḥ karavālasakhodvijah. deva vīravaro nāma sevārtham drastumicchati and aham devi mahibhartuh Sūdrakasyāgravallabha.
Sa ca devaststiye'hni pārgāyur divan esyati, referring to Sūdraka as the Kiag of Sobhāvati having Somaprabha as his wife, a brāmaņa lad hailing from Mālava having come to him for service. (KSS)42 omitting the name o Somparabha and referring to Dharınavati a3 the spouse of Viravara, Satyavara as his son and Viravati as his daughter; both agreeing on the point of considering Viravara as a Brahmaņa lad from Malaya, Sudraka having been conferred the BOON of living and reigning for more than a century. According to Dr. A.D. Pusalkar4 3 "The Kathasaritsagara makes him iule over Sobhavatt i.e Karnataka or Kalinga."f But he is wiong in illustrating the point that "According to the fourth vetāla Katha as given in the Brhatkathāmañjar Sūdraka is stated to be the King of Vardhamana" because BKM IX. 4.263 quoted above dispells this doubt. Mệccha katika illustrates the entire story of an internal Revolution in the city of Ujjayini, Sudraka evincing a close acquaintance with the remote nook and corner of the city, we can hardly go beyond a surmise that he had a sentimental affilliation unto that town and therefore, had a domicile of that town. N.L. Dey 44 takes Sobhāyatı as the birth place of Buddha or Kanakamuni identified by P.C. Mookarji as Araura in the Nepalese Tarai a yojana to the east of Tilaura, Sobhavuti
Sambodhi XII--20
