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Vol. XXXV, 2012
'Bhuvanasundarī-Katha'
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work, the Gāthā-saptaśatī, as well as of the Murunda (Saka) governor of the Kusāna monarchs at Pataliputra. Padalipta also was the author of the Tarangavaikahā, (Tarangavatīkathā, incompletely available) and the Jyotiskarandaka, a work on Jaina astronomy.
Kālidāsa understandably is the one who is the most celebrated Sanskrit poet of the early Gupta period, the creator of the famous poem Meghadūta and the play Abhijñāna-Sākuntala besides six other works, his Kauntalīyadutatva now not available.
Haribhadra sūri was an ‘āgamic' as well as a 'dārśanic' scholar of high standing with scores of works in Sanskrit and Prakrit to his credit.
Bappabhatti alias Bhadrakīrtti sūri, as a poet of high calibre and merit, was respected at the courts of the Later Maurya king Amara of Gopagiri (Gwālior), King Dharmapāla of Gauda and, the Pratīhāra monarch Nāgāvaloka (Nāgabhata II). His muktakas or single verses in Prakrit were compiled into a work called the Tārāgana by his contemporary Saṁkuka, a member of the élite circle at Kanauj court. Bappabhatti's four elegant hymns in Sanskrit, two addressed to Sarasvati, one to śāntidevatā, one to Jina Aristanemi and a few more which currently are unavailable. (For instance, the one he recited at the (Jaina) stūpa at Mathurā, as noted in the Prabhāvakacarita (A.D. 1277], is unavailable.)
Poet Dhanapāla was at the court of the Paramāra potentates Muñja (last quarter of the 10th century) as also his successor Bhoja (late 10th-early 11th century). He is famous for his poetic composition, the Tīlakamanjarī. Also he had composed three hymns, one each to Jina Rsabha and to Jina Mahāvīra, a commentary in Sanskrit on the hymn in Sanskrit by his brother Sobhana muni, and one hymn in Apabhramba in praise of the Jina Mahāvīra of Satyapura (Sāñcor) in Rajasthan. Moreover, to his credit are two lexicons, one covering Prakrit words, the other relating to the Sanskrit words, the latter now not available.
The Svetāmbara sect had begun to take shape from c. the second century A.D. It originated in Lāta (south Gujarat) and Valabhi (east Saurāstra).
However, vaiśvadeva seems a sort of offering ritual to Viśvadeva.
It was a port-town in South Konkana or northern coastal Karnataka from where the betel-nuts were imported in Gujarat. To date, these nuts, in popular parlance, are known as 'Sevardhāni (Śrīvardhanī) sopārī.'
