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PREFACE
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Aihole inscription of Pulakesin II1 and in Biina’s Harsha-
charita} With Professor Pathak’s edition I have compared
a MS. of the Paricabhyadaya in Kanarese characters, which
Mr. H. Krishna Sastri purchased for me at Sravana-Belgohi
in Mysore.
While the Jainas showed their appreciation of Kalidasa’s
work by incorporating it in their sectarian literature, it was
studied by both Southern and Northern Buddhists as well.
A Singhalese paraphrase of it, was discovered at Kandy by
W. Ghmatilaka, and was published, along with the Sanskrit
text, by the Hon. '1'. B. Panabokke (Colombo, 1893).3 The
Tanjur contains a Tibetan translation of the Meghaduta, which
has been edited and translated into German by Dr. Beckh
(Berlin, 1907). The Singhalese version includes seven and
the Tanjur six of the spurious verses.
The most recent contribution to the study of the Meghaduta
is Pandit 11. Y. Krishnamachariar’s edition of the Vidyullata,
a very full and learned commentary (Srirangam, 1909). “The
commentator, named Piirna-SarasvatT, seems to have lived
some three centuries ago somewhere in the State of Cochin ”
(Preface, p. ii).
As might bo expected, the Meghaduta served as a pattern
to many later versifiers. II.II. Maharaja Itamavarma (JitAS.,
1884, pp. 401-52) described six imitations of it, and Aufreclit
(ZDMG., vol. 54, p. 616) named ten others. As stated by
Aufrecht, the oldest of these imitations is the Pavanaduta of
Dhoylka, which has been published recently by Mr. Monmohan
Chakravarti in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
new series, vol. 1, pp. 41-71. Part 13 of the Kavyamald
contains another Pavanaduta, by Vadichandra (pp. 9-24), and
a quite modern Manoduta (pp. 84-130). The author of the
1 Dr. Fleet in Ind. Ant., vol. 8, p. 242 f., and Professor Ivielhorn in Ep. Ind.,
vol. 6, p. 7.
2 Dr. Hall in his Preface to Subandhu’s Ydmvadattd, p. 14, note.
3 Cf. Professor Rhys Davids’ remarks in JRAS., 1894, p. 632 if.
viii
Aihole inscription of Pulakesin II1 and in Biina’s Harsha-
charita} With Professor Pathak’s edition I have compared
a MS. of the Paricabhyadaya in Kanarese characters, which
Mr. H. Krishna Sastri purchased for me at Sravana-Belgohi
in Mysore.
While the Jainas showed their appreciation of Kalidasa’s
work by incorporating it in their sectarian literature, it was
studied by both Southern and Northern Buddhists as well.
A Singhalese paraphrase of it, was discovered at Kandy by
W. Ghmatilaka, and was published, along with the Sanskrit
text, by the Hon. '1'. B. Panabokke (Colombo, 1893).3 The
Tanjur contains a Tibetan translation of the Meghaduta, which
has been edited and translated into German by Dr. Beckh
(Berlin, 1907). The Singhalese version includes seven and
the Tanjur six of the spurious verses.
The most recent contribution to the study of the Meghaduta
is Pandit 11. Y. Krishnamachariar’s edition of the Vidyullata,
a very full and learned commentary (Srirangam, 1909). “The
commentator, named Piirna-SarasvatT, seems to have lived
some three centuries ago somewhere in the State of Cochin ”
(Preface, p. ii).
As might bo expected, the Meghaduta served as a pattern
to many later versifiers. II.II. Maharaja Itamavarma (JitAS.,
1884, pp. 401-52) described six imitations of it, and Aufreclit
(ZDMG., vol. 54, p. 616) named ten others. As stated by
Aufrecht, the oldest of these imitations is the Pavanaduta of
Dhoylka, which has been published recently by Mr. Monmohan
Chakravarti in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
new series, vol. 1, pp. 41-71. Part 13 of the Kavyamald
contains another Pavanaduta, by Vadichandra (pp. 9-24), and
a quite modern Manoduta (pp. 84-130). The author of the
1 Dr. Fleet in Ind. Ant., vol. 8, p. 242 f., and Professor Ivielhorn in Ep. Ind.,
vol. 6, p. 7.
2 Dr. Hall in his Preface to Subandhu’s Ydmvadattd, p. 14, note.
3 Cf. Professor Rhys Davids’ remarks in JRAS., 1894, p. 632 if.