वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

Bangalore, 1879), which contains the words: ‘In śabda a Pāṇini paṇḍita, in nīti Bhūṣaṇācārya, in nāṭya and other bharata śāstras Bharatamuni, in kāvya Subandhu, in siddhānta Lakulīśvara, at the feet of Śiva a Skanda adorning the world, thus is Vāma Śaktiyati truly described.’ The only additional information thus gained is that by the twelfth century his fame had spread to southern India. Subandhu's Allusions to Sanskrit Literature. If Subandhu is thus recognised but sparingly and indefinitely in the literature and epigraphy of his native land, he is himself most generous in alluding to the productions of other authors. The majority of his references, however, cast little light upon his date, for no real conclusions can be drawn from his mention of the Bṛhatkathā (ed. Hall, pp. 110, 147), the Kāmasūtra (ed. Hall, p. 89), the Chandōviciti section of the Bhāratīyanāṭyaśāstra (ed. Hall, pp. 94, note, 119, 235), the Mahābhārata and Harivaṁśa (ed. Hall, pp. 21, 27, 93, 234, 254; on Subandhu's indebtedness to the Mahābhārata see Cartellieri, ‘Das Mahābhārata bei Subandhu und Bāṇa,’ in WZKM. 13. 57–74), the Rāmāyaṇa (ed. Hall, p. 234), the Upaniṣads (ed. Hall, p. 235), and the Mīmāṁsā and Nyāya philosophies (ed. Hall, pp. 93, 235, 297), any more than we can derive any definite conclusions from his general and hostile mention of the Buddhists (ed. Hall, pp. 144, 179, 235, 255, 297 bis) and Jains (ed. Hall, pp. 93, 187, 297; cf. on these allusions to the Buddhists and the Jains Telang, ‘Subandhu and Kumārila,’ in FRASBo. 18. 150–159).¹ It has been held, on the basis of Śivarāma's commentary, that the words bāuddhasaṅgatim ivā 'laṁkārabhūṣitām, ‘decked with ⟨adornments⟩ as an assembly of Buddhists is decked with the ⟨Alaṁkāra⟩’ (ed. Hall, p. 235), refer to the Bāuddhasaṅgatyalaṁ- kāra of Dharmakīrti (cf., in general, on Dharmakīrti, Pathak, ‘Dharmakīrti and Śaṁkarāchārya,’ in FRASBo. 18. 88–96, and

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¹ Reference should also be made, in this connexion, to the allusions collected in Krishnamachariar's Introduction, received after these lines were written, to other Sanskrit literature, especially the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, as well as to religion and philosophy (pp. 22-24, 27-28).