77. 74 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

74 HISTORY OF SANSKRIT POETICS

तममन्यन्त तथाप्यतीव ते ॥I) which the जयमझला regards as an example of दीपक (of the मध्य kind) मल्लिनाथ remarks (with biting sarcasm against the name जयमझला) अत्र गच्छन्नित्यादिश्लोकत्रये क्रमादाधयन्तमध्यावसानेषु क्रियापद- प्रयोगादाधन्तमध्यदीपकानीत्युक्तं जयमङ्कलाकारेण तत्परममङ्कलं लक्षणापरिध्ानात्'. Vide Dr. De's H.S. P. vol. I. pp. 50-57 and Prof. H.R. Divekar in J. R.A. S. for 1929 pp. 825-841 for comparison and contrast between भहि and भामह. Recently, Dr. C.Hooykaas contributed a learned and exhaustive paper on 'some arthālankāras in the Bhattikāvya X' to the Sir Ralph Turner Presentation volume (1957) pp. 351-363. On p. 357 he sets out an exhaustive table of the arthālankāras from Daņdin's Kāvyādarśa, from the Bhatțikāvya and from Bhāmaha and adds valuable criticisms on individuals Alankāras. For reasons of space it is not possible to enter upon a discussion of his translations and explanations. On p. 351 he points out that the Bhattikāvya was the prototype of the old Javanese Rāmāyana. The date of Bhatti can be settled within certain narrow limits. In the last verse he states that he composed the poem in Valabhi ruled by king Dharasena (काव्यमिदं विहितं मया वलभ्यां श्रीधर- सेननरेन्द्रपालितायाम्). Bhatti gives no further information about him- self. The commentary Jayamangala says that his father was श्रीस्वामिन्, while another commentator विद्याविनोद says that Bhatti's father was श्रीधरस्वामिन. The name of the author himself is given in some mss. as भटटृस्वामिन् and as भतृ1 in others. This has given ri,c to several speculations, which will be briefly indicated below. There are four kings of Valabhi (modernVala in Kathiawad)that were named Dharasena. The जयमङ्गला reads 'श्रीधरसूनुनरेन्द्रपालितायां' But this is not accepted by most mss. and commentators. There is no king called नरेन्द्र, son of श्रीधर, among the Valabhi rulers. At least one hundred copperplate grants of the Valabhi dynasty have been discovered. There are at least 13 plates of Dharasena II alone. The pedigree relevant for showing the relationship of the four Dharasenas is as follows :

1. In the Bulletin of the Ramavarma Research Intitute, vol. 13 for 1946 July pp. 23-24, Mr. Pattar states that in several mss. of the Bhattikavya in Malayalam script at Trichur the poem is called wantar and that at the end of each canto of the commentary the colophon is परमगुरुहरिविरचितकाव्यटीकायां and the commentator had three names जयेश्वर, जयदेव and जयमङ्गल.