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ANTHOLOGY STANZAS ATTRIBUTED TO
MAYURA
 
INTRODUCTION
 
The stanzas attributed to Mayūra, both in the published and
also in the unpublished anthologies, have been listed by Thomas
in his recent edition of the Kavindravacanasamuccaya.¹ They
are seventeen in number, not counting citations from the Sürya-
śataka, and of these seventeen, sixteen are found in anthologies
that have been already published. The exception is a stanza in
Jalhana's Saktimuktāvali (1247-1260 A.D.), an anthology as
yet unedited. I have not been able to secure a copy of this verse,
but from its opening words, sabhiprāyam praṇayasarasam (quoted
by Thomas, op. cit., p. 67), it appears to have been composed in
the mandäkräntä meter.
 
Of the sixteen published stanzas, some are quoted here from
the Subhasitavali (after 1469 A.D.) of Vallabhadeva, others
from the Paddhati (1363 A.D.) of Sārngadhara, and still others
from the Saduktikarnāmṛta (1205 A.D.) of Sridhara Dāsa.³
The other anthologies which also cite some of these stanzas of
Mayūra are, as listed by Thomas (loc. cit.), the Padyavali of
Rūpagosvämin* (reported published in Calcutta)," and the follow-
ing, which are as yet unpublished: the Padyamṛtatarangini of
Haribhāskara, the Sarasamgraha of Sambhudāsa, and the Su-
bhasitaratnakośa of Bhaṭṭa Srikṛṣṇa.Ⓡ
 
1 F. W. Thomas, Kavindravacanasamuccaya, introd., p. 67-68, Calcutta,
1912.
 
2 See above, Introduction, p. 9, note 3.
 
8 For the date of the Saduktikarnāmṛta, see above, Introduction, p. 62,
 
note I.
 
The Padyavalt is earlier than 1541 A.D.; cf. J. Eggeling, Catalogue
of the Skt. MSS in the Library of the India Office, Sanskrit Literature:
B. Poetical Literature, part 7, p. 1534-1537, no. 4034, London, 1904.
 
5 See Thomas, Kavindravacanasamuccaya, introd., p. 11.
 
* Thomas, op. cit., Corrections and Additions, p. xi, states that one stanza
of Mayura is quoted in the unpublished Saktiratnaval of Vaidyanātha.
 
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