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PREFACE
a commentary on Rudrata’s Alanhdra,1 and that his preceptor
(upadhi/ai/a) was Prakasavarsha.” The latter is perhaps
identical with the poet Prakasavarsha who is quoted in the
•Sariigadharapaddhati and Sub/tashitam/i, and with the author
of a commentary on the Kiratarjitniya.3
Vallabhadeva’s quotations in his commentary on the
Meghaduta can be traced to the following well-known works :—
Kumarttsambhaia (verses 1, 14, 94), Bhartrihari (109), Manu (fi),
Mahabhdrctta (6, 106), Rajhuvamsa (14,94), Rdmdyana (104),
Sisupalavadha (42), and Setubandha (p. 54, note 4). In his
commentary on the first fifteen sargas of Magha’s great poem
I have found the following references, mostly anonymous: —
Amaru (viii, 36, 37), Udbhata (ix, 6), JRigveda (iv, 4), Kamandaki
(ii, 81), Kiratarjuviya (i, 1, 8, 42; ii, 33, 93; iv, 16;
vi, 47 ; viii, 53; ix, 22, 50; x, 8, 20, 21, 23, 76; xv, 1),.
Tuesday the eighth tithi of the dark fortnight of Ashadha in the Saptarshi year
4722. ’ ’ Dr. Fleet has kindly contributed the following remarks :—
“ This date is unsatisfactory, or, as Professor Kielhorn would have said, irregular.
According to the results established by that scholar in hid. Ant., vol. 20, p. 149 ff.,
the day should fall in a.d. 1646, and we should take the month aspurnimanta (ending
with the full-moon). But in this year the equivalent of the purnimanta Ashadha
vati 8 was Wednesday, 27 May. It is the case, indeed, that the tithi began on the
Tuesday. But it began at about 19 hrs. 15 min. after mean sunrise ; that is, about
1 hr. 15 min. after midnight. And, even if the writer was working at that hour,
there was no reason for him to cite the tithi then beginning, unless, indeed, he sought
to indicate (but in a most obscure manner) the very unusual time at which be was
working : he should have cited the tithi vati 7, which gave the proper number of the
day ending with the coming sunrise.
“In the preceding year, a.d. 1645, the tithi vati 8 of t\\epurnimdnta Ashadha
was Saturday, 7 June.
“ In the following year, however, a.d. 1647, the tithi vati 8 of the purnimanta
Ashadha was Tuesday, 15 June.
“ The tithi vati 8 of Ashadha as the amdnta month (ending with the new-moon)
did not touch a Tuesday in any of the three years.
“ Perhaps the writer used the year 4722 as expired (instead of current), contrary to
the general custom for this reckoning. Otherwise, he made a mistake in the year,
giving 4722 instead of 4723 ; or he wrote Illumine, ‘ on Tuesday ’, instead of Saumye,
‘ on Wednesday
1 iv, 21 ; vi, 28.
- i, 35 ; iv, 55 (cf. Suhhdshildvali, edited by Peterson, Introduction, p. 59); x, 20.
3 Cat. Cat., vol. 1, p. 347.
PREFACE
a commentary on Rudrata’s Alanhdra,1 and that his preceptor
(upadhi/ai/a) was Prakasavarsha.” The latter is perhaps
identical with the poet Prakasavarsha who is quoted in the
•Sariigadharapaddhati and Sub/tashitam/i, and with the author
of a commentary on the Kiratarjitniya.3
Vallabhadeva’s quotations in his commentary on the
Meghaduta can be traced to the following well-known works :—
Kumarttsambhaia (verses 1, 14, 94), Bhartrihari (109), Manu (fi),
Mahabhdrctta (6, 106), Rajhuvamsa (14,94), Rdmdyana (104),
Sisupalavadha (42), and Setubandha (p. 54, note 4). In his
commentary on the first fifteen sargas of Magha’s great poem
I have found the following references, mostly anonymous: —
Amaru (viii, 36, 37), Udbhata (ix, 6), JRigveda (iv, 4), Kamandaki
(ii, 81), Kiratarjuviya (i, 1, 8, 42; ii, 33, 93; iv, 16;
vi, 47 ; viii, 53; ix, 22, 50; x, 8, 20, 21, 23, 76; xv, 1),.
Tuesday the eighth tithi of the dark fortnight of Ashadha in the Saptarshi year
4722. ’ ’ Dr. Fleet has kindly contributed the following remarks :—
“ This date is unsatisfactory, or, as Professor Kielhorn would have said, irregular.
According to the results established by that scholar in hid. Ant., vol. 20, p. 149 ff.,
the day should fall in a.d. 1646, and we should take the month aspurnimanta (ending
with the full-moon). But in this year the equivalent of the purnimanta Ashadha
vati 8 was Wednesday, 27 May. It is the case, indeed, that the tithi began on the
Tuesday. But it began at about 19 hrs. 15 min. after mean sunrise ; that is, about
1 hr. 15 min. after midnight. And, even if the writer was working at that hour,
there was no reason for him to cite the tithi then beginning, unless, indeed, he sought
to indicate (but in a most obscure manner) the very unusual time at which be was
working : he should have cited the tithi vati 7, which gave the proper number of the
day ending with the coming sunrise.
“In the preceding year, a.d. 1645, the tithi vati 8 of t\\epurnimdnta Ashadha
was Saturday, 7 June.
“ In the following year, however, a.d. 1647, the tithi vati 8 of the purnimanta
Ashadha was Tuesday, 15 June.
“ The tithi vati 8 of Ashadha as the amdnta month (ending with the new-moon)
did not touch a Tuesday in any of the three years.
“ Perhaps the writer used the year 4722 as expired (instead of current), contrary to
the general custom for this reckoning. Otherwise, he made a mistake in the year,
giving 4722 instead of 4723 ; or he wrote Illumine, ‘ on Tuesday ’, instead of Saumye,
‘ on Wednesday
1 iv, 21 ; vi, 28.
- i, 35 ; iv, 55 (cf. Suhhdshildvali, edited by Peterson, Introduction, p. 59); x, 20.
3 Cat. Cat., vol. 1, p. 347.