12 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XII, 



It is thus clear that the eighth canto of the Kumdra, 

 which describes the amorous life of Siva and ParvatI after 

 marriage, was known to the rhetoricians Abhinava Gupta and 

 Anandavarddhana. The former was a prolific writer whose 

 time falls in the fourth quarter of the tenth and the first 

 quarter of the eleventh century. The latter flourished, accord- 

 ing to the Raja-tarahgini , in the time of the Kasmlrian king 

 Anantavarmman (second half of the ninth century). 1 



Several other older rhetoricians quote even particular verses 

 of this canto. Without burdening this article with all the 

 quotations, the following few may be mentioned as samples : 



(i) In the Sarasvati-kanth-abharana , attributed to the king 

 Bhoja of Dhara (1021 a.d.)\ verse 1*1 is quoted to illustrate 

 upamana (similitude) subhead prativimba (reflexion), verse 

 49 for anadara-krta-vikara (passion from lover's neglect), verses 

 79 and 80 for mada (intoxication). 2 



(ii) Ksemendra alias Vyasadasa, living in the time of 

 the king Ananta-raja (1028-1080 a.d.), quotes in his Suvrtta- 

 tilakam » the verse 63 as an example of the metre Rathoddhata, 

 and in his Aucitya-vicara-carcca criticises the verse 87 as not 

 proper for Lord Siva, the Guru of the three worlds. 



(iii) In the Tippani (gloss) of Namisadhu on Rudrata's 

 Kavy-alankara (composed in Samvat 1125 or 1068 a.d., some 

 manuscripts give Samvat 1176 or 1119 a.d.), the verse 2 is 

 quoted to illustrate non-forwardness (shyness) in a girl lover. 4 



(iv) In the commentary of Dhanika on Dhananjaya's 

 Dasa-rupaka (twelfth century), the same verse 2 is cited 

 for Mugdha (a young artless girl) and for sadhvasabhava 

 (feeling of anxiety). 6 



(v) In the Kavy-anumsanam of Hemacandra, a prolific 

 Jaina writer (Samvat 1145-1229 or 1088-1172 a.d.) s verses 5 6, 





cf. Hemacandra's Kavy-anusasanath (X. S. Pre--), p. 124. 



1 The Introduction to the Dhvany-aloka, pp. 1-2. 



* The Sarasvati-kanth-abharana, A. Barooah's ed., pp. 188, 286 305 



308. 



3 The Suvrtta-tilakam in the Kar !fa -mala II. p. 51, under SJ1JT ** 

 that is Kalidasa's. The Attcitya-Hcara-carcca with his own gloss, in the 

 Kavya-mata, I, p. 120 :-*pai ^T *Tf%^lW (then quotes verse 87)- 



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* Rudrata's Kavy-alankara, \ir. Sag. ed., p. 143. 



Dhanika's commentary, the Aloka, X. S. ed., pp. 54, 128. 



