JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



New Series. 



Vol. X— 1914 



♦ 



I. Jayamangala. 

 By S. P. V. Ramanujaswami, B.A., Vizagapatam 



In the paper on "The real author of Jayamangala" by 

 Pandit Chandradhar Guleri, B.A., of Ajruer, in the issue for 

 July 1913 of the Indian Antiquary, the author came to the 

 conclusion that the Jayamangala on Kamasutra was composed 

 by Sankararya, the author of the commentary of the same 

 name on the Nltisara of Kamandaka. I am one with him in 

 so far as he says that the commentary was not composed by 

 Yasodhara, but was simply copied by him after the text when 

 he was too idle for more important work on account of his 

 sorrow for the death of his cultured friend. The commentary 

 on the last book which accompanied the second edition of 

 Kamasutra, which Mr. Guleri thinks to belong to Vijaya- 

 nagaram, but which was really copied from the Grantha 

 manuscript of the Government Oriental Library, Mysore, 

 by my brother, S. P. V. Ranganathasvami Aryavaraguru, and 

 lent to the Editor, does not mention Yasodhara as its author. 

 There is another copy of the same work in that library in 

 Canareese characters which too does not mention the name of 

 Yasodhara. Again the Malay alam manuscript of Jayamangala 

 belonging to the Adyar Library, Madras, does not make men- 

 tion of Yasodhara. The colophon in these manuscripts issimply 



The phrase about Yasodhara, viz. f^TOrf^TfM^^TST**B 

 gpVnmW?rftnif%'4 ^Slt^<H^3irr^aWrsjT?rf, obtain only 



