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INTRODUCTION

I. Concerning the Daśarūpa of Dhanaṃjaya

The author and his patron. The Daśarūpa,^[1] or Treatise on the Ten Forms of Drama, one of the most important works on Hindu dramaturgy, was composed by Dhanaṃjaya, son of Viṣṇu, in Mālava in the last quarter of the tenth century A. D., during the reign of Vākpatirāja II., or Muñja.^[2] The monarch’s name is given by Dhanaṃjaya in his concluding stanza (DR. 4. 91), where he states that his ‘intelligence was derived from discourse with the sovereign lord Muñja.’ This ruler, who had a great variety of names or epithets (Muñja, Vākpati, Utpalarāja, Amoghavarṣa, Pṛthivīvallabha, Śrīvallabha),^[3] was the seventh

↑ The name appears as Daśarūpa or, more frequently, as Daśarūpaka, with the suffix -ka. For the shorter form, which I use throughout in referring to the work, we have, as Hall observed (p. 4, notes), the warrant of Dhanaṃjaya himself in his concluding lines (4. 91), as well as the ‘implied support of Dhanika,’ who gave his commentary the title Daśarūpavaloka. Cf. also the parallel forms Daśarūpa-ṭīkā and Daśarūpaka-ṭīkā noted as names of another commentary by Aufrecht, Cat. Cod. Oxon. p. 135 b.
↑ See Bühler (and Zachariae), ‘Ueber das Navasāhasāṅkacharita des Padmagupta oder Parimala,’ in Sb. der phil.-hist. Classe der kais. Akad. der Wiss. zu Wien, 116 (1888), pp. 620–625 (= English translation, Ind. Ant. 36. 168–170). The last (15th) section of the first prakāśa of Merutuṅga’s Prabandhacintāmaṇi (completed April, 1306) is devoted to an account of Muñja; see the translation by Tawney, Calcutta, 1901 (Bibliotheca Indica), pp. 30–36. Muñja is mentioned by Śambhu in his Rājendrakarṇapūra, v. 17 (Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, i. 460 b). For inscriptions recording land-grants by Muñja-Vākpati see Archaeol. Survey of Western India, vol. 3 (Burgess), London, 1878, p. 100 (given also at Ind. Ant. 6. 48–53); Ind. Ant. 14. 159–161.
↑ Cf. Bühler, op. cit. pp. 620–621; Ep. Ind. 1. 226. See also p. xxiii, below. For an inscription giving the name Utpalarāja see Ep. Ind. 5, p. vi.

[1] The name appears as Daśarūpa or, more frequently, as Daśarūpaka, with the suffix -ka. For the shorter form, which I use throughout in referring to the work, we have, as Hall observed (p. 4, notes), the warrant of Dhanaṃjaya himself in his concluding lines (4. 91), as well as the ‘implied support of Dhanika,’ who gave his commentary the title Daśarūpavaloka. Cf. also the parallel forms Daśarūpa-ṭīkā and Daśarūpaka-ṭīkā noted as names of another commentary by Aufrecht, Cat. Cod. Oxon. p. 135 b.

[2] See Bühler (and Zachariae), ‘Ueber das Navasāhasāṅkacharita des Padmagupta oder Parimala,’ in Sb. der phil.-hist. Classe der kais. Akad. der Wiss. zu Wien, 116 (1888), pp. 620–625 (= English translation, Ind. Ant. 36. 168–170). The last (15th) section of the first prakāśa of Merutuṅga’s Prabandhacintāmaṇi (completed April, 1306) is devoted to an account of Muñja; see the translation by Tawney, Calcutta, 1901 (Bibliotheca Indica), pp. 30–36. Muñja is mentioned by Śambhu in his Rājendrakarṇapūra, v. 17 (Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, i. 460 b). For inscriptions recording land-grants by Muñja-Vākpati see Archaeol. Survey of Western India, vol. 3 (Burgess), London, 1878, p. 100 (given also at Ind. Ant. 6. 48–53); Ind. Ant. 14. 159–161.

[3] Cf. Bühler, op. cit. pp. 620–621; Ep. Ind. 1. 226. See also p. xxiii, below. For an inscription giving the name Utpalarāja see Ep. Ind. 5, p. vi.

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