295. 296 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

296 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

प्रणीता दश काव्यगुखा:। वयं तु माधुयोंज:प्रसादलक्षर्यांसीनेव गुयान्मन्यामह्दे' (काव्या- नुशासनवृत्ति p.31). In his commentary (pp.3-5) he gives long lists of countries, rivers, plants and products peculiar to each. He seems to have written a महाकाव्य named ऋषभदेवचरित (p. 15) and a work on metrics styled छन्दोनुशासन (p. 20). A verse (on p. 58) addressed to arnrz (i. e. probably the author himself) is quoted in the com. and another in which नेमिकुमार is addressed occurs on p. 32 (गायन्ति रासकविधाविह मेदपाटनार्योघुमापि तव नेमिकुमार कीर्तिम् ॥). Among the authors and works quoted by him are अ्धिमथन (अपभ्रंशनिबद्ध p.15), आनन्दवर्धन, काव्यप्रकाश (p. 29), चन्दप्रभ- काव्य, त्रिविक्रम (p.20), दमयन्ती (p. 19), नेमिनिर्वास (p. 16), बाल- रामायण (p.67), भीमकाव्य (in ग्राम्यभाषा p.15), राजीमतीपरित्याग, लीलावती (पद्यमयीकथा p. 18), वासवदत्ता (चम्पू p. 19), विष्णुविजय, शीता (a poe- tessp.20), शृङ्गारतिलक (pp. 61 and 63 the verses अस्माकं सखि and गाढालिञन०). There is no originality in the work. He largely borrows from the काव्यमीमांसा of राजशेखर, the काव्यप्रकाश and other works and quotes examples contained in other works e. g. he quotes under यमक the verse रम्भारामा which is वाग्भटालक्वार IV. 30 and नेमिनिर्वाणकाव्य VII. 50. Ams. of the काव्यानुशासन (Eggeling's cat. No. 1157) is dated संवत् 1515 (1458-59 A. D.). He mentions the काव्यप्रकाश and arz. Therefore he is later than 1150 A.D. He probably flourished in the 14th century. 34. The साहित्यवर्पण of विश्वनाथ. Beyond a few scraps of information gathered from his own works, we know very little about the personal history of Visvanatha. He come of a brahmana family that had distinguished itself by learning. His great-great-grand-father was Narayana, who appears to have been a learned man and to have written a work on Rhetoric.1 His father was Chandrasekhara, who was a poet 1. 'तत्प्रायत्वं चास्मद्वृद्धप्र पितामहसहृदयगोष्ठीगरिष्ठकविपसिडतमुख्यश्रीमन्ना- रायणपादरुक्तम् ।' S.D. III. 2-3; but in his Kavyaprakasadarpana, Visvanatha says that Narayana was his grandfather "a4Tg: श्रीकलिङ्भूमगडलाखएडलमहाराजाधिराजश्रीनरसिंहदेवसभारयां धर्मंदत्तं स्थगयन्त ...... अस्मत्पितामहश्रीमन्नारायखदासपादाः" Intro. to K. P. p. 25 (Va.). Two explanations are possible; I Nārāyana was really the great-great-grand-father and is referred to as the grand-father for the sake of brevity; II The two Narayanas were distinct, one being the grand-son of the other. In India, a grandson often bears the name of his grand-father.