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4. The dates of these two authors also strengthen the proposed
identification. Both of them are equally quoted by the authors belonging to
a period from 1000 A. D. to 1400 A. D. and, therefore, both the authors
may be ascribed to a period not later than 1000 A.D.
The four points mentioned above may, indeed, favour the contention
that the two Abhinandas represent one and the same author. But there are
yet two very weighty reasons which entirely disprove their identity. These
are stated below:-
(1) Abhinanda mentions in the beginning of the seventh chapter of the
Ramacarita that he is the son of Satananda, but the Abhinanda of the
Kadambari kathâsâra calls himself the son of Jayantabhaṭṭa. This
discrepancy is such that it can sufficiently throw overboard the suggestion
that the two authors are the same.
(2) It is also difficult to believe that Abhinanda of the Kadambari-
hathasara who is so proud of his pedigree, would be entirely silent in the
Râmacarita and would introduce his father as a mere non-entity, and with
a different name as Satananda.
On the strength of these grounds the identity of the two authors can-
not be established, though, obviously, there are many points common to
them, which may be accounted for by their being connected with the same
country which is Bengal.
It has already been said that the author of the Râmacarita, is the son
cf one Satánanda, whose identity has been for many years
His father.
a puzzling problem. Dr. F. W. Thomas has suggested that
he may be the same Satánanda who is well-known in the Alankára literature
by his other name Rudrata'. Rudrata himself in one of his Bandhas suggests
his name as Satinania and his father's name as Vámukabhatta². It is
generally held that Rudrata, as his name suggests, was a Kashmirian writer.
If this view is correct we have to consider Abhinanda as a second Kashmirian
poet of that name who had come over to Bengal and was subsequently
patronized by a king of that country because of his poetic skill.
There was, however, another Satânanda who was himself a poet and
probably belonged to Bengal. He may also quite conceivably represent
Satânanda the father of Abhinanda the author of the Râmacarita. Two
anthologies compiled in Bengal, namely, the Saduktikarnamṛta and the
Kavindravacanasamuccaya, quote quite a large number of verses under the
name of one Satánanda.
1. Introduction of the Kavindravaca -Samuccaya. p. 20.
PP. 52, 53 of the Kavyálankara.
2.
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4. The dates of these two authors also strengthen the proposed
identification. Both of them are equally quoted by the authors belonging to
a period from 1000 A. D. to 1400 A. D. and, therefore, both the authors
may be ascribed to a period not later than 1000 A.D.
The four points mentioned above may, indeed, favour the contention
that the two Abhinandas represent one and the same author. But there are
yet two very weighty reasons which entirely disprove their identity. These
are stated below:-
(1) Abhinanda mentions in the beginning of the seventh chapter of the
Ramacarita that he is the son of Satananda, but the Abhinanda of the
Kadambari kathâsâra calls himself the son of Jayantabhaṭṭa. This
discrepancy is such that it can sufficiently throw overboard the suggestion
that the two authors are the same.
(2) It is also difficult to believe that Abhinanda of the Kadambari-
hathasara who is so proud of his pedigree, would be entirely silent in the
Râmacarita and would introduce his father as a mere non-entity, and with
a different name as Satananda.
On the strength of these grounds the identity of the two authors can-
not be established, though, obviously, there are many points common to
them, which may be accounted for by their being connected with the same
country which is Bengal.
It has already been said that the author of the Râmacarita, is the son
cf one Satánanda, whose identity has been for many years
His father.
a puzzling problem. Dr. F. W. Thomas has suggested that
he may be the same Satánanda who is well-known in the Alankára literature
by his other name Rudrata'. Rudrata himself in one of his Bandhas suggests
his name as Satinania and his father's name as Vámukabhatta². It is
generally held that Rudrata, as his name suggests, was a Kashmirian writer.
If this view is correct we have to consider Abhinanda as a second Kashmirian
poet of that name who had come over to Bengal and was subsequently
patronized by a king of that country because of his poetic skill.
There was, however, another Satânanda who was himself a poet and
probably belonged to Bengal. He may also quite conceivably represent
Satânanda the father of Abhinanda the author of the Râmacarita. Two
anthologies compiled in Bengal, namely, the Saduktikarnamṛta and the
Kavindravacanasamuccaya, quote quite a large number of verses under the
name of one Satánanda.
1. Introduction of the Kavindravaca -Samuccaya. p. 20.
PP. 52, 53 of the Kavyálankara.
2.
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