300. SĀHITYADARPAŅA 301

SĀHITYADARPAŅA 301

and उपजीव्य to रुय्यक, or (2) he would not further criticize रय्यक who is मान्य and उप०. (e) Viśvanātha quotes the words of a writer called Dharmadatta,1 who was a contemporary of Nārayana, the grand-father (great-great-grand-father ?) of Viśvanātha and was vanquished by him in the court of king Narasimha of Kalinga. Whether Narayana was the grandfather or great- great-grand-father of Viśvanātha would not make much diffe- rence. Many kings of Kalinga bore the name Narasimha. Be- sides, there is a good deal of confusion about the dates of their accession.ª As a ms. of the Sahityadarpana is dated in 1384 A. D. Narasimha IV is not certainly the king at whose court Nārayana lived, because Narasimha IV came to the throne at some time between 1373 A. D. and 1411 A. D. Narasimha III also is out of question, as the date of his accession is some- where between 1328 A. D. and 1361 A. D. It is likely that Narasimha II is the king referred to. The date of his accession falls between 1270 A. D. and 1303 A. D .; he is also styled Kavipriya in his inscriptions, which makes it probable that he patronized many learned men. If Nārayana was really the great-great-grand-father of Visvanatha, then the king may have been Narasimha I, the date of whose accession is somewhere near 1253 A. D. II. The external evidence is as follows :- (f) The Sāhi- tyadarpana is twice mentioned by name in the Ratnāpana3 of Kumārasvāmin, a commentary of the Pratāparudrīya. Kumarasvamin is the son of the famous commentator Malli- nātha, who is believed by all competent authorities to have flourished in the 15th ccntury.4 1. तदाहः धर्मदस्तः स्वग्रन्थे 'रसे सारश्रमत्कारः सर्वत्राप्यनुभूयते। तच्चमत्का- रसारत्वे सर्वत्राप्यद्भतो रसः। तस्मादद्भतमेवाह कृती नारायणो रसम् ॥' on S.D. III. 2-3. 2. See Dr. Bhandarkar's Note on the kings of Kalinga in the Introduction to Mr. Trivedi's edition of the Ekavali. 3. See pp. 245, 248 of the प्रतापरुद्रयशोभूषण. The quota- tions are the definitions of the व्यभिचारिभावs मद and मोह, which occur in the S. D (III. 146-47 and 150). 4. See Dr. Bhandarkar's Preface to the Mālatīmadhava and Mr. Trivedi's Introduction (pp. XXIV-XXV) to the Bhatțikāvya.