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in recent times. The title reminds us of Udayana's
famous work Bauddhadhikkāra.
Vidhinirnaya is very likely a work on Mimanisā,
dealing with the nature and scope of Vedic injunctions.
Ratnapradipa. This should have been a law
digest or Nibandhasmrti. The name might have been
Ratnapradipa or Smrtiratnapradipa.
S'itikanthajaya. Evidently this is a kavya, very
probably in metrical form, the subject of the work being
the exploits of S'iva.
xxix
:
Bhavodbheda and Rasarnava seem to be works on
Natyasastra and literary criticism respectively.
According to Balayajñavedesvara Ratnakheta wrote
60 kavyas and 18 dramas. The Bhaişmipariņaya referred
to above should have been one of those 60 kavyas.
Thus, most of the works of such an illustrious writer
-Ratnakheta-are lost or at least not yet discovered.
Like the famous Diksita, of whom he was an elder con-
temporary he wrote more than a hundred¹ works. He
was more unfortunate than his contemporary. Let us
hope that his other works will be recovered in the near
future.
Ratnakheta had three sons, Kesava and Ardhanari-
svara through the first wife and Rāja-
cūḍāmani through the second.² Of
these, about Kesava we do not know much. Ardha-
Ardhanarisvara.
Yajñavedes' vara says:
I
1
A: 1
2
¹ Bālayajñavedes'vara, while commenting upon verse 22 of
canto I, says:
अथात्मनो वैमात्रेयमग्रजं केशवदीक्षितं स्तौति । P. 31
famous work Bauddhadhikkāra.
Vidhinirnaya is very likely a work on Mimanisā,
dealing with the nature and scope of Vedic injunctions.
Ratnapradipa. This should have been a law
digest or Nibandhasmrti. The name might have been
Ratnapradipa or Smrtiratnapradipa.
S'itikanthajaya. Evidently this is a kavya, very
probably in metrical form, the subject of the work being
the exploits of S'iva.
xxix
:
Bhavodbheda and Rasarnava seem to be works on
Natyasastra and literary criticism respectively.
According to Balayajñavedesvara Ratnakheta wrote
60 kavyas and 18 dramas. The Bhaişmipariņaya referred
to above should have been one of those 60 kavyas.
Thus, most of the works of such an illustrious writer
-Ratnakheta-are lost or at least not yet discovered.
Like the famous Diksita, of whom he was an elder con-
temporary he wrote more than a hundred¹ works. He
was more unfortunate than his contemporary. Let us
hope that his other works will be recovered in the near
future.
Ratnakheta had three sons, Kesava and Ardhanari-
svara through the first wife and Rāja-
cūḍāmani through the second.² Of
these, about Kesava we do not know much. Ardha-
Ardhanarisvara.
Yajñavedes' vara says:
I
1
A: 1
2
¹ Bālayajñavedes'vara, while commenting upon verse 22 of
canto I, says:
अथात्मनो वैमात्रेयमग्रजं केशवदीक्षितं स्तौति । P. 31