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in the catalogue of the India Office library,¹ ascribed to a certain
Ramanandana Mayūra or Moropant (i.e. Mayūra Pandit), a
Marathi writer of the eighteenth century (1729-1794), who wrote
both in Marathi and in Sanskrit. In like manner Barnett makes
Moropant the author of the Muktāmālās (ed. by Vāman Dāji
Oka, Bombay, 1896)-doubtless the same as the Aryamuktāmālā
and places him under the heading 'Mayūra,' the Sanskrit
equivalent of his Marathi name Moro (pant). This identity of
name probably led Bühler wrongly to ascribe the Aryāmuktāmālā
to our Mayūra-a view which I find is also held by Mr. F. W.
Thomas, librarian of the India Office, London. I therefore con-
clude that the Aryāmuktāmālā must be stricken from the list of
Mayura's works.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A COMMENTARY ASCRIBED TO MAYURA
There is also attributed to Mayura the composition of a prose
commentary (tika) on a work of Dhanamjaya. The commentary
is entitled Sabdalingärthacandrika. The ascription of this work
to Mayūra is, however, made by William Taylor, in his Catalogue
Raisonné, a work not altogether reliable, so that it is somewhat
1 See Catalogue of the Library of the India Office, vol. 2, part 1, Sanskrit
Books (London, 1897), p. 14, s.v. An edition (Poona, 1882) of the
Āryamuktāmālā is there recorded.
2 See G. A. Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, vol. 7, p. 14, Calcutta,
1905.
3 L. D. Barnett, Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit
Books in the Library of the British Museum, p. 385, 391, London, 1908.
For an edition (Bombay, 1892) of Moropant's Kṛṣṇavijaya, see OB, vol.
6, no. 1909; for an edition (Bombay, 1899) of his Kekavah, see OB, vol.
13, no. 4271.
In reply to an inquiry on this point, Mr. Thomas wrote: 'Curiously
enough, I had myself quite recently noted for verification Mayūra's sup-
posed authorship of an Aryamuktamala. Bühler's catalogue contains no
further information, and I have no doubt that what his ms really con-
tained was Moropant's work of that name, often called Muktamala
simply.'
5 William Taylor, Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental MSS in the Govern
ment Library, vol. 2, p. 131, no. 862, Madras, 1860. Aufrecht, in compiling
his Catalogus Catalogorum, used neither vol. 2 nor vol. 3 of Taylor's
work, and of vol. I he remarks (Cat. Cat. vol. 1, introd., p. 6) : 'This book
in the catalogue of the India Office library,¹ ascribed to a certain
Ramanandana Mayūra or Moropant (i.e. Mayūra Pandit), a
Marathi writer of the eighteenth century (1729-1794), who wrote
both in Marathi and in Sanskrit. In like manner Barnett makes
Moropant the author of the Muktāmālās (ed. by Vāman Dāji
Oka, Bombay, 1896)-doubtless the same as the Aryamuktāmālā
and places him under the heading 'Mayūra,' the Sanskrit
equivalent of his Marathi name Moro (pant). This identity of
name probably led Bühler wrongly to ascribe the Aryāmuktāmālā
to our Mayūra-a view which I find is also held by Mr. F. W.
Thomas, librarian of the India Office, London. I therefore con-
clude that the Aryāmuktāmālā must be stricken from the list of
Mayura's works.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A COMMENTARY ASCRIBED TO MAYURA
There is also attributed to Mayura the composition of a prose
commentary (tika) on a work of Dhanamjaya. The commentary
is entitled Sabdalingärthacandrika. The ascription of this work
to Mayūra is, however, made by William Taylor, in his Catalogue
Raisonné, a work not altogether reliable, so that it is somewhat
1 See Catalogue of the Library of the India Office, vol. 2, part 1, Sanskrit
Books (London, 1897), p. 14, s.v. An edition (Poona, 1882) of the
Āryamuktāmālā is there recorded.
2 See G. A. Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India, vol. 7, p. 14, Calcutta,
1905.
3 L. D. Barnett, Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit
Books in the Library of the British Museum, p. 385, 391, London, 1908.
For an edition (Bombay, 1892) of Moropant's Kṛṣṇavijaya, see OB, vol.
6, no. 1909; for an edition (Bombay, 1899) of his Kekavah, see OB, vol.
13, no. 4271.
In reply to an inquiry on this point, Mr. Thomas wrote: 'Curiously
enough, I had myself quite recently noted for verification Mayūra's sup-
posed authorship of an Aryamuktamala. Bühler's catalogue contains no
further information, and I have no doubt that what his ms really con-
tained was Moropant's work of that name, often called Muktamala
simply.'
5 William Taylor, Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental MSS in the Govern
ment Library, vol. 2, p. 131, no. 862, Madras, 1860. Aufrecht, in compiling
his Catalogus Catalogorum, used neither vol. 2 nor vol. 3 of Taylor's
work, and of vol. I he remarks (Cat. Cat. vol. 1, introd., p. 6) : 'This book