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'Irresistible are the arrows of Käma; my dearest is far away; my heart
is repining;
Strong is my love; fresh is my youth; [yet] my life is exceedingly hard.
My family[-name] is spotless;
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
My womanly nature is opposed to constancy; the time is ripe for amorous
passion; death is impatient.
O friend, how are all these unendurable fires now to be endured?'
As regards the date of this author, whom we may assume to
have been the son of our Mayūra, it can only be said that the
stanza just cited is found in the Kāvyaprakāśa and must there-
fore be earlier than 1050-1100 A.D., which is the date, as we
have seen above,¹ of the composition of the Kavyaprakāśa. It
must, however, be borne in mind that we have records of the
existence of two other poets bearing the name Sankuka or Sanku,
who may, or may not, be the same as the author of the durvärāḥ
stanza just cited. One of these is described in the Rajatarangini
as the author of a poem entitled Bhuvanabhyudaya, and his date
is fixed by Jacob³ as about 816 A.D., a date that would preclude
his being a son of our Mayūra. In the Subhāṣitāvali¹ several
stanzas are ascribed to him, even including our durvārāḥ verse.
The Paddhati of Sarngadhara places one stanza (ed. Peterson,
no. 3894) under his name, and the Kāvyaprakāśa cites him as a
rhetorician and an authority on kävya.
The remaining, or third, Sanku was likewise a poet, and his
name is listed the astrological work Jyotirvidabharaṇa (22. 8,
1 For the date of the Kavyaprakaśa, see above, p. 30, note 2.
Kalhana's Rajatarangini, 4.705 (edited by Durgaprasāda, Bombay,
1892), has the following śloka:-
kavir budhamanaḥsindhuśaśankaḥ śankukabhidhaḥ
yam uddifya 'karot kävyam bhuvanābhyudayābhidham
'With reference to that (battle), the poet named Sankuka, the moon of
the ocean of learned minds, composed a poem entitled Bhuvanabhyudaya.
8 G. A. Jacob, Notes on Alankara Literature, in JRAS, new series, vol.
29 (1897), p. 287.
* Peterson, Subhaşitävali, introd., p. 127.
5 In the Subhaşitävali, this stanza (ed. Peterson, no. 1787) is ascribed
to Mudraka.
See Kavyaprakāśa, 4. 28-29 (edition of Jhalakikara, p. 104-105); cf.
Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1, p. 629.
'Irresistible are the arrows of Käma; my dearest is far away; my heart
is repining;
Strong is my love; fresh is my youth; [yet] my life is exceedingly hard.
My family[-name] is spotless;
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
My womanly nature is opposed to constancy; the time is ripe for amorous
passion; death is impatient.
O friend, how are all these unendurable fires now to be endured?'
As regards the date of this author, whom we may assume to
have been the son of our Mayūra, it can only be said that the
stanza just cited is found in the Kāvyaprakāśa and must there-
fore be earlier than 1050-1100 A.D., which is the date, as we
have seen above,¹ of the composition of the Kavyaprakāśa. It
must, however, be borne in mind that we have records of the
existence of two other poets bearing the name Sankuka or Sanku,
who may, or may not, be the same as the author of the durvärāḥ
stanza just cited. One of these is described in the Rajatarangini
as the author of a poem entitled Bhuvanabhyudaya, and his date
is fixed by Jacob³ as about 816 A.D., a date that would preclude
his being a son of our Mayūra. In the Subhāṣitāvali¹ several
stanzas are ascribed to him, even including our durvārāḥ verse.
The Paddhati of Sarngadhara places one stanza (ed. Peterson,
no. 3894) under his name, and the Kāvyaprakāśa cites him as a
rhetorician and an authority on kävya.
The remaining, or third, Sanku was likewise a poet, and his
name is listed the astrological work Jyotirvidabharaṇa (22. 8,
1 For the date of the Kavyaprakaśa, see above, p. 30, note 2.
Kalhana's Rajatarangini, 4.705 (edited by Durgaprasāda, Bombay,
1892), has the following śloka:-
kavir budhamanaḥsindhuśaśankaḥ śankukabhidhaḥ
yam uddifya 'karot kävyam bhuvanābhyudayābhidham
'With reference to that (battle), the poet named Sankuka, the moon of
the ocean of learned minds, composed a poem entitled Bhuvanabhyudaya.
8 G. A. Jacob, Notes on Alankara Literature, in JRAS, new series, vol.
29 (1897), p. 287.
* Peterson, Subhaşitävali, introd., p. 127.
5 In the Subhaşitävali, this stanza (ed. Peterson, no. 1787) is ascribed
to Mudraka.
See Kavyaprakāśa, 4. 28-29 (edition of Jhalakikara, p. 104-105); cf.
Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1, p. 629.