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attributed to Abhinanda out of which three are actually traced in the
Ramacarita.
Sarvananda, the Vandyaghaṭiya and a Bengali commentator on the
Amarakośa, whose work has been published in the Trivandrum Sanskrit
Series, as No. 38 has also referred to this Abbinanda twice in his work,
and quotes two verses which are traceable in the present work. Sarvananda
flourished in the middle of the 12th century and belonged to a Banerjee
family of Bengal*.
Rayamukuta is another Bengali author who has referred to Abhinanda
in his commentary on the Amarakośa. Three verses are quoted by him under
the name of Abhinanda and one of them at least is found in the Râmacarita.
In this connection we need not point out that Ujjvaladatta and Rayamukuta
belonged to the middle of the 13th and the 15th centuries respectively.
Further, there are many stray poetical compositions in the anthologies
in which many excellent poets including Abhinanda are eulogized. In the
Saktimuktavali and the S'ârigadhara-Paddhati, for instance, there is a verse
referring to Amara, Acala, Abhinanda and Kalidasa. Here it is said that
there are only four persons who can be considered as poets; all others who
attempted to direct their skill at poetry behaved like the (imitating)
monkeys. This may be taken as an exaggerated statement because there
is little truth in it. Very little is indeed known about the first two poets
Amara and Acala, but the skill of Abhinanda in selecting apt and simple
words in his composition as represented in the Râmacarita verily proves
the correctness of the author's contention.
By these references in later works it is obvious that Abhinanda
commanded wide popularity in the five centuries from the 11th, to the 15th.,
during which the Râmacarita was regarded as a repository of excellent
sayings which were quoted profusely by later writers.
1. iuaa Gadı: gqua: Unadieṛtti.-Anfrecht's edi. 1-2
तटीमब्धेः पद्धघामभजत जटायोः प्रथमजः ॥ Rámacarita 13.86.
eneral ft zganâa | Urâdivṛtti 1-43. Râmacarita 10. 2.
| Uṇâdivṛtti 1V. 117. Râmacarita 18-85.
2.
pp. 28, 45.
3. Chap. 16, 6; 28, 103.
4.
5.
6.
See the introduction of the T.8.8. edition.
i :
कविरमरः कविरचलः कविरभिनन्दश्च कालिदासश्च ।
अन्ये कवयः कपयः चापलमात्रं परं वृधति ।।
: | Râyamakuṭa ad. 1. 1. 7. 2. Râmacarita 23, 23
Sârnga-176. Sûkti-muktávali. Bhandarkar, op. cit. p. XIII,
Ramacarita.
Sarvananda, the Vandyaghaṭiya and a Bengali commentator on the
Amarakośa, whose work has been published in the Trivandrum Sanskrit
Series, as No. 38 has also referred to this Abbinanda twice in his work,
and quotes two verses which are traceable in the present work. Sarvananda
flourished in the middle of the 12th century and belonged to a Banerjee
family of Bengal*.
Rayamukuta is another Bengali author who has referred to Abhinanda
in his commentary on the Amarakośa. Three verses are quoted by him under
the name of Abhinanda and one of them at least is found in the Râmacarita.
In this connection we need not point out that Ujjvaladatta and Rayamukuta
belonged to the middle of the 13th and the 15th centuries respectively.
Further, there are many stray poetical compositions in the anthologies
in which many excellent poets including Abhinanda are eulogized. In the
Saktimuktavali and the S'ârigadhara-Paddhati, for instance, there is a verse
referring to Amara, Acala, Abhinanda and Kalidasa. Here it is said that
there are only four persons who can be considered as poets; all others who
attempted to direct their skill at poetry behaved like the (imitating)
monkeys. This may be taken as an exaggerated statement because there
is little truth in it. Very little is indeed known about the first two poets
Amara and Acala, but the skill of Abhinanda in selecting apt and simple
words in his composition as represented in the Râmacarita verily proves
the correctness of the author's contention.
By these references in later works it is obvious that Abhinanda
commanded wide popularity in the five centuries from the 11th, to the 15th.,
during which the Râmacarita was regarded as a repository of excellent
sayings which were quoted profusely by later writers.
1. iuaa Gadı: gqua: Unadieṛtti.-Anfrecht's edi. 1-2
तटीमब्धेः पद्धघामभजत जटायोः प्रथमजः ॥ Rámacarita 13.86.
eneral ft zganâa | Urâdivṛtti 1-43. Râmacarita 10. 2.
| Uṇâdivṛtti 1V. 117. Râmacarita 18-85.
2.
pp. 28, 45.
3. Chap. 16, 6; 28, 103.
4.
5.
6.
See the introduction of the T.8.8. edition.
i :
कविरमरः कविरचलः कविरभिनन्दश्च कालिदासश्च ।
अन्ये कवयः कपयः चापलमात्रं परं वृधति ।।
: | Râyamakuṭa ad. 1. 1. 7. 2. Râmacarita 23, 23
Sârnga-176. Sûkti-muktávali. Bhandarkar, op. cit. p. XIII,