80. BHAȚȚIKĀVYA 77

BHAȚȚIKĀVYA 77

on Panini's sutras by Jayaditya and Vamana is : वृत्तौ भाष्ये तथा धातुनामपारायणादिषु। विप्रकीर्णंस्य तन्त्रस्य क्रियते सारसंग्रहः॥. The काशिकाविवरण- पज्जिका alias न्यास of जिनेन्द्रबुद्धि commenting on this verse says that चूक्लि, भट्टि and नल्लूरcomposed explanations of Panini's sutras before the काशिका. According to I-tsing who wrote his work in 691 A.D. Jayāditya died about 661 A.D. It is possible that Bhatti who wrote a mahākāvya for illustrating Pāņini's aphorisms also composed a commentary thereon. If this turns out to be correct, then Bhatti must have flourished some years before the Kāsikā i.e. about 600 to 640 A. D. at the latest. This is a closer appro- ximation about Bhatti's date than made a little above, but it depends upon the identity of Bhatti, mentioned in the Nyāsa, with the author of the Bhattikāvya. The commentary जयमङ्गला is comparatively an old one. It quotes only such Alankara writers as भामहand दशिडन्, but does not quote #THz. So the author who had three names (videp. 74 note l above) flourished after 800 and before 1050 A.D. The author of the जयमङ्गला on भट्टिकाव्य appears to be different from the author of the commentary called जयमङगला on the कामसूत्र, as the latter is said to have been composed by यशोधर styled गुरुदत्तेन्द्रपाद. This latter also is an early work, as a ms. of it in the Bhau Daji collection in B. B. R. A. S. shows that it is a copy of a ms. in the भारतीभाएडार (Library) of चालुक्य वीसलदेव (1243-1261 A. D.). Vide Mr. Trivedi's introduction to Bhattikāvya pp. XV-XVII for a discus- sion of the name of the author of the भट्टिकाव्य, wherein he comes to the conclusion that the author had three names, viz. wzf, भट्टस्वामिन् and भर्तस्वामिन् and that most of the commentators speak of his father either as श्रीधरस्वामिन् or as श्रीस्वामिन. In this connection it may be noted that the oldest of the mss. on which Mr. Trivedi's edition is based and which is dated śake 1326 (1404 A.D.) reads in the colophon 'श्रीधरस्वामिसूनोभंटूटिबाहसस्य कृतौ &c. Some scholars identify the author of the भट् टिकाव्य with the donee भट् टिभट, son ofबप्प, in a grant of ध्रुवसेन dated (वलभी) संवत् 344 (653 A.D.). Dr. Hultzsch objects to this identification (E. I. vol. I. p. 92). Mr. B. C. Mazumdar (J. R. A. S. 1904 pp. 395-397) identifies the author of the Bhattikavya with the arref of the Mandasor Sun temple Inscription (Fleet's Gupta Inscri- tions No.18) dated 473 A.D. on the ground of similarity between the verses of the inscription and the description of autumn (sarad) in the भट् टिकाव्य (sarga II).This would lead to the result