Shadbhashachandrika

Author(s): Kamlashankar Pranshankar
Publisher: Rajkiya Granthamaladhikar Mumbai

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INTRODUCTION.
Thus there is conclusive evidence to prove that Trivikrama is not the author of the Sûtras and that the author of the Sûtras is a sage Vâlmîki.
As mentioned before on a careful comparison of the Sutras in question with those of Hemachandra given in foot. notes in an Appendix pp. 19-56, it seems to me very probable, almost certain, that the author of the Sûtras in question is later in age than Hemachandra; for the Sûtras are an abridgment and improvement upon those of Hemachandra. Valmiki to whom the Sutras are ascribed by Lakshmidhara in a manuscript of the Sûtras in the Government library of oriental manuscripts, Madras, and in the S'ambhurahasya is thus not the Vâlmiki of the Râmâyana, but another sage of the same name. Just as Nalodaya is attributed to the well-known Kâlidâsa but is the work of another Kâlidâsa; so are the Sûtras in question ascribed to the first poet Vâlmiki, though they are a composition of another sage of
the same name.
Lakshmidhara-From an account given by Lakshmîdhara of his own family in the introductory verses of the Shadbhâshâchandrikâ, it appears that he belonged to Charakûri family that lived on the bank of the Krishnâ in the Andhra country and was celebrated in the Kâs'yapa Gotra. The Lord of Venkata was the family deity. Up to the seventh in descent from this family both learning and wealth lived together. In this family was born Timmaya, a very learned man who performed the Soma sacrifice and who was very charitable and a great devotee of S'iva. His son was Yajñes'vara who was very proficient in the study of the Rigveda. From him and his wife Sarvâmbikâ were born four sons who were like the four Vedas in the family. Kaundabhatta, the eldest of them was well versed in the six systems of philosophy. Lakshmidhara was his younger brother and a worshipper of Dakshinâmûrti