65. 62 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

62 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

... प्रयोगागता अस्माभिश्च कश्यपमतकतुम्बरविशाखिलाधाचार्यनिखिलमुनिवचनात् &c. In places the author quotes uTs (e.g. on folios 21a, 39a, 43a on गान्धारपञ़्चमीलक्षण, 43b on भान्ध्रीलक्षण). So also he quotes in classical Sanskrit padas and catuspadis called बह्मोक्त (folio 22b, 42a अस्यां ब्र्मोक्तं चतुःपदी यथा-सोस्यां गौरीमुखाम्भोजरुहदिव्यतिलकपरिचुम्बितार्चित &c.) The date of the author of the भरतभाष्य, viz. of king Nanya- deva would not present any difficulty but for one circumstance. The 4th Introductory verse is 'लक्ष्यप्रधानं खलु शास्त्रमेतान्नःशङ्कदेवोपि तदेव वष्टि (वक्ति ?). Verse 23 of the first chapter (which is in उपजाति) also refers to निःशक्क 'नोपाधि ददेधस्य (?) विकारभेदं निःशङ्कसूरि: खलु कूटताने। सवषु तास्तेपि कृताश्च शुद्धाश्चतुदशैवेति मतं मदीयम् ॥.' निःशक्क is a somewhat unusual name for an author. It was borne by the author of the सङ्गीतरत्नाकर who was called निशङ्कशाङ्गदेव and whose father afeer was patronized by king Bhillama and also by Singhana of the Yadavas of Devagiri. faru ruled from about 1210 to 1247 A.D.So शाङ्गदेव would have to beplaced about 1233 to 1270A.D. Then if नान्यदेव refers to निःशक्काशाङगदेव, the former cannot be much than about 1280 to 1300 A. D. But there is no Nānyadeva, known at present, who ruled over Mithila in the latter half of the 13th century. The king नान्यदेव of Mithila was the founder of the Karnātaka dynasty of Mithila and is said to have ruled from 1097 to 1147 A.D. Vide the Proceedings of the 14th session of the Indian History Congress 130-135 (by Mr. Radhakrishna Choudhury) on 'Nanyadeva and his contemporaries.' He was defeated by Vijayasena, king of Bengal, who ruled from 1095 A.D. to 1158 A.D. Vide the Deopara plate (E. I. vol. I. 305 at p. 314) and Dr. R. C. Majum- dar in I.H.Q. vol. VII.pp. 679-687, where he says that विजयसेन came to the throne in 1095 A.D. This would indicate that this Nānyadeva flourished about 1100 A.D. Therefore, either the references to निःशङ्कदेव in the ms. of the भरतभाष्य are interpolations (which is quite possible, in view of the fact that the ms. is not complete and no other ms. is available at present for comparison) or the निःशङ्कदेव referred to in the भरतभाष्य is some one other than शाङदेव or that there was some otherनान्यदेव of Mithila not yet disco- vered. The matter of the date of the भरतभाष्य will have to rest there for the present. At the end of the नाटकलक्षरत्नकोश of सागरनन्दिन् occurs the verse श्रीहर्ष-विक्रमनराधिप-मातृगुप्त-गर्ग-श्रश्मकुट्ट- नखकुट्टकवादराखाम्। एवां मतेन भरतस्य मतं विगाध् धुष्टंमया समनुगच्छत रत्नकोशम्॥ It appears that according to सागर नन्दिन् these seven authors had