100. KĀVYĀDARŚA 97

KĀVYĀDARŚA 97

married and made to him a gift of lands. दामोदर had three sons of whom मनोरथ was the middle one, who had tour sons, the youngest of whom was वीरदर. The latter married गौरी. Their only son was aoet whose mother died in his infancy and the father after upanayana. There was invasion, arst was devastated and दयडी left काशी. After some years दएडी returned to the पल्लव court.1 In a dream he had a vision of सरस्वती who blessed him and asked him to write the story of faur king राजवाहन. Next morning he narrated the story of भवन्तिसुन्दरी. The अवन्तिसुन्दरीकथा is the first portion of the whole story, the current दशकुमारचरित is the middle portion and there is one उच्छवास for the उत्तरपीठिका. अवन्तिसुन्दरीकथा was published in the Dakshinabharati Series (Madras) in 1924. For मातृदस as a friend of Dandin as stated in अवन्तीसुन्दरीकथा, vide JOR (Madras) vol. 19 pp. 159-165. Vide JOR (Madras) vol. 17 (published in parts) and JOR (Madras) vol. XXV (supplement) for भवन्तिसुन्दरीकथा- #IT edited by Mr. G. Nariharasastri with an Introduction and summary of contents. Vide Prof. V. V. Mirashi's paper on the 'Historical Data in the Dasakumaracarita' in ABORI. vol. 26 pp. 20-31, where he arrives at the conclusion that the poli- tical conditions described in the 8th Ucchvasa of the Dasa-

Upadhye in the Poona Orientalist (vol. XI. parts 3 and 4 pp .. 29-30) quotes a verse of जिनभद्र from his विशेषावश्यकभाष्य in which the two romances of वासवदत्ता and तरश्षवती are mentioned and points out that a colophon of the ms. of that work shows that the latter was written in 531 saka (i. e. 609 A. D.). This would mean that the author of the वासवदचा flourished sometime before 600 A. D. and would make it possible for us to hold that Damodara might have been Subandhu's guru. 1 Vide 'History of the Pallavas' by R. Gopalan (1928), where on p. 83 the pedigree is set out. I take only the rele- vant portion here. नन्दिवर्मन्-his sons सिंइविष्णु I and भीमवमन्- सिंहविष्णु's son महेन्द्रविक्रमवमन् I .- son नर्सिंहवर्मन I .- his sons महेन्द्र- वर्मन II. and परमेश्वरवर्मन I. The मचविलासप्रहसन was written by पल्लव king महेन्द्रविक्रमवर्मन् I. son of सिंदविष्णु (vide p.3 of the प्रहसन). Verse 22 of the प्रहसन is : 'विरोष: पूर्वसम्बक्धो युकयोरस्तु शाश्रतः। परस्परप्रीतिकर: किरातार्जुनयोरिव II'. In this there appears to be a pointed reference to the किरातार्जुनीय of भारवि, who was a contem- porary of सिंदविष्णु acc. to the अवन्तिसुन्दरीकथा.