son of Mṛgāṅkagupta, found favor, as was mentioned above, with Vākpatirāja and later with his successor Sindhurāja, at whose direction he wrote the Navasāhasāṅkacarita, a mahākāvya in glorification of the sovereign.[1] Dhanika quotes one of his stanzas in his commentary on the Daśarūpa.[2] To this same period belongs also the Jain author Amitagati, who finished his Subhāṣitasaṃdoha, or Subhāṣitaratnasaṃdoha, in 993 A. D., in the reign of Muñja.[3] Another work of his, entitled Dharmaparīkṣā, was written in the year 1014.[4]
Scope and importance of the Daśarūpa. In the Daśarūpa Dhanaṃjaya presents, in the form of a brief manual, the rules
- ↑ 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. 583–630 (English translation of this article: Ind. Ant. 36. 149–172). The text has been published by Vāmana Shāstrī Islāmpurkar, Bombay, 1895. Padmagupta’s chief reference to his royal patrons is as follows (Navasāh. 1. 7, 8):—
Sarasvatīkalpalataikakandaṃ
vandāmahe Vākpatirājadevam
yasya prasādād vayam apy ananya-
kavīndracīrṇe pathi saṃcarāmaḥ.
divaṃ yiyāsur mama vāci mudrām
adatta yāṃ Vākpatirājadevaḥ
tasyānujanmā kavibāndhavasya
bhinatti tāṃ samprati Sindhurājaḥ. - ↑ See the commentary on DR. 2. 65.
- ↑ Cf. Kielhorn, Ind. Ant. 19. 361; Hertel, WZKM. 17. 105–134. The text of this work has been published by Schmidt and Hertel in ZDMG., vols. 59 and 61, and also by Bhavadatta Śāstrī and Parab, Bombay, 1903 (Kāvyamālā series, no. 82).
- ↑ On this work see Mironow, Die Dharmaparīkṣā des Amitagati. Leipzig. 1903 (dissertation).
of the references to Muñja-Vākpati (for a list of which see Weber, Indische Studien, 8. 193–4) is as follows (4. 20):—
sa jayati Vākpatirājaḥ sakalārthimanorathaikakalpataruḥ
pratyarthibhūtapārthivalakṣmīhaharaṇadurlalitaḥ
Peterson, Subhāṣitāvali, Bombay, 1886, p. 115, states that this verse is quoted in the Daśarūpāvaloka, but I do not find it in the printed text.
