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expedition and on the insistence of the prince he was
forced to eat meat. Being ashamed to return to his father
after this, he started on a pilgrimage to make atone-
ment for the sin. In the course of his wanderings he
came across prince Durvinita of Ganga dynasty and
attracted by his virtues began to live with him. He
was then 20 years old. The verse is composed by him."
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King Simhavienu was very much pleased and sent
several messages to Damodara inviting him to his court.
In the end Damodara came and settled at Kancipara
and the king treated him equal to his son. He wrote
several works like 'Gandhamadana'* and attained great
fame. In course of time he married and begot three
in the Katha also lends support only to this view. So the
identification of Damodara with Bharavi is incorrect. Therefore,
the idea we get is that through Bharavi, Damodara came to the
court of Visnuvardhana. They were thus contemporaries.
*Sri M. R. Kavi observes that Gandhamädana is a work of
the prolific royal author Mahendravikramavarman, on the ground that
the word at which is an appellation of the Pallava Kings occurs
in the passage "स च तथा गृह्यमाणगन्धमादनप्रभृतिभिः श्रीवरकृतैः" in the text.
He also cites the Mamandur inscription which speaks of Mahendra-
vikramavarman as an author of many works and the Sūktimuktavall of
Rajasekhara which attributes a Gandhamādana to a Sahasanka in the
साहसाङ्कः स भूपतिः । सेव्यं सकललोकस्य विदधे गन्धमादनम् ॥"
and seems to identify Sahasanka with Mahendravikramavarman.
But the reading in our Ms. is स च तथानुगृह्यमाणः गन्धमादनप्रभृतिभिव
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se,
66
Vide Avantisundari kathäsära, Preface, p. 3.
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forced to eat meat. Being ashamed to return to his father
after this, he started on a pilgrimage to make atone-
ment for the sin. In the course of his wanderings he
came across prince Durvinita of Ganga dynasty and
attracted by his virtues began to live with him. He
was then 20 years old. The verse is composed by him."
7
King Simhavienu was very much pleased and sent
several messages to Damodara inviting him to his court.
In the end Damodara came and settled at Kancipara
and the king treated him equal to his son. He wrote
several works like 'Gandhamadana'* and attained great
fame. In course of time he married and begot three
in the Katha also lends support only to this view. So the
identification of Damodara with Bharavi is incorrect. Therefore,
the idea we get is that through Bharavi, Damodara came to the
court of Visnuvardhana. They were thus contemporaries.
*Sri M. R. Kavi observes that Gandhamädana is a work of
the prolific royal author Mahendravikramavarman, on the ground that
the word at which is an appellation of the Pallava Kings occurs
in the passage "स च तथा गृह्यमाणगन्धमादनप्रभृतिभिः श्रीवरकृतैः" in the text.
He also cites the Mamandur inscription which speaks of Mahendra-
vikramavarman as an author of many works and the Sūktimuktavall of
Rajasekhara which attributes a Gandhamādana to a Sahasanka in the
साहसाङ्कः स भूपतिः । सेव्यं सकललोकस्य विदधे गन्धमादनम् ॥"
and seems to identify Sahasanka with Mahendravikramavarman.
But the reading in our Ms. is स च तथानुगृह्यमाणः गन्धमादनप्रभृतिभिव
""
se,
66
Vide Avantisundari kathäsära, Preface, p. 3.
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