This page has not been fully proofread.

the Vidyadharas. The next morning Dandin began to
narrate the story of Avantisundarī to his friends.
 
WORKS OF DANDIN.
 
In the verse,
 
"त्रयोऽमयस्त्रयो वेदास्त्रयो देवास्त्रयो गुणाः ।
त्रयो दण्डिप्रबन्धाश्च त्रिषु लोकेषु विश्रुताः ॥"
 
Rajasekhara indicates that Dandin is the author of three
works and they are all very well known.
divided on the identity of these three.
 
But scholars are
 
Dasakamāracarita
 
and Kavyadarsa are taken to be the works of Dandin by
most people. It is about the third that there is a wide
difference of opinion. *
 
Some people observe that the verse,
"लिम्पतीव तमोऽङ्गानि वर्षातीवाञ्जनं नभः ।
असत्पुरुषसेवेव दृष्टिविफलतां गता ॥"
 
is seen both in Kavyadarsa and Mrcchakatika and
so the third work of Dandin must be the Mṛcchakaṭika.
This view is untenable because we see the same verse
occuring also in Bhasa's Balacarita and Carudatta and
if we take Mṛcchakatika to be Dandin's work, on the
same ground, these two also must be taken to be his
works.
 
Some others take Chhandoviciti to be the third
work of Dandin. They base their conclusion on the
mention of the Chhandoviciti in the verse,
 
Vide, P. V. Kane, History of Sanskrit Poetics, 1951, pp. 87 ff.