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of Acarya Dandin. There is also strong evidence to
ascribe the Dasakumaracarita to Dandin. Tradition is
quite in favour of this attribution. In the colophons of
the manuscripts of the Dasakumaracarita, we find Dandin
being mentioned as the author of the work. The colophon
in one paper manuscript (14035 A of this library) is as
follows:-
'इति दण्डिनः कृतौ दशकुमारचरिते अपहारवर्मचरितं नाम द्वितीय उच्चासः । '
In another palm leaf manuscript (10635), again, we find
the name of Dan in being mentioned:
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' इति श्रीदण्डिविरचिते दशकुमारचरिते प्रथमं चरितम् ।'
On this question, new light is forthcoming from
an old Sanskrit work, Abhijñāna Šakuntala Carca, by
an anonymous author now being published in the Sanskrit
Journal of this institation (vide Vol. VIII. No. 1. p. 9).
A passage from the Dasakumaracarita is quoted in the
Carca with the preface. This also supports
the tradition of Dandin's authorship of the Dasakumara-
carita. There is doubt as to the authorship of the available
version of the Pūrvapithika of that work, but that question
does not require detailed consideration here, as we are
nct directly concerned with that.
The facts stated above in regard to the authorship of
the Avantisundari and the Dašakumaracarita are
sufficient to ascribe both the works to Ācārya Dandin.
But some scholars and critics
cannot willingly accept
that both these are works by the same author, on account
ascribe the Dasakumaracarita to Dandin. Tradition is
quite in favour of this attribution. In the colophons of
the manuscripts of the Dasakumaracarita, we find Dandin
being mentioned as the author of the work. The colophon
in one paper manuscript (14035 A of this library) is as
follows:-
'इति दण्डिनः कृतौ दशकुमारचरिते अपहारवर्मचरितं नाम द्वितीय उच्चासः । '
In another palm leaf manuscript (10635), again, we find
the name of Dan in being mentioned:
6
' इति श्रीदण्डिविरचिते दशकुमारचरिते प्रथमं चरितम् ।'
On this question, new light is forthcoming from
an old Sanskrit work, Abhijñāna Šakuntala Carca, by
an anonymous author now being published in the Sanskrit
Journal of this institation (vide Vol. VIII. No. 1. p. 9).
A passage from the Dasakumaracarita is quoted in the
Carca with the preface. This also supports
the tradition of Dandin's authorship of the Dasakumara-
carita. There is doubt as to the authorship of the available
version of the Pūrvapithika of that work, but that question
does not require detailed consideration here, as we are
nct directly concerned with that.
The facts stated above in regard to the authorship of
the Avantisundari and the Dašakumaracarita are
sufficient to ascribe both the works to Ācārya Dandin.
But some scholars and critics
cannot willingly accept
that both these are works by the same author, on account