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APPENDIX II. 
The Date of EkavalI. 
The EkavalI was first described at length in Dr. Bhandarkar’s 
The "Work Deport on the Search for Sanskrit MSS. in 
the Bombay Presidency during the years 
1887-1891, pages lxv.-lxxi. Last year (1903) it was printed in the Bom¬ 
bay Sanskrit series, as No. 63, under the editorship of Mr. Kamalacaq- 
kara Prana 9 ai)kara Trivedi, with an introduction, Mallinatlia’s Tika 
Tarald, lengthy notes in English, and several indices, making up a fair¬ 
ly big volume of 780 pages. 
The EkavalI is divided into eight Unmesas or openings ( i.e ., chap¬ 
ters). The Text consists of harikus or the 
rules of Poetic art (in verse), and Vrttis or 
comments (in prose), with udaharanas or examples (in verse). Most 
of these udaharanas are the author’s own, composed in praise of the 
king Nrsimha Deva, as the author himself says in kariJcd 7 of the 1st 
Chapter (p. 15). I say ‘ most ’ advisedly, and not £ all ’ as Mr. Trivedi 
says (Introd. p., xii), as will appear from the following analysis of 
the udaharanas : 
Examples in praise of 
Nrslnilia Deva 
Its Contents. 
Unmesas. 
Total Examples. 
T. 
II. 
III. 
IV. 
V. 
YI. 
VII. 
VII I. 
Total 
3 
18 
59 
19 
3 
54 
11 
197 
364 
1 
12 
34 
19 
0 
50 
8 
190 
314. 
Ekavall’s date is discussed in Dr. Bhandarkar’s “ report,” p. lxvi. 
Its date 6 ^ an< ^ su PPl ementai T not® in IP 0 
Introduction to the EkavalI, pp. xxxiii- 
xxxvii; and this is practically followed by Mr. Trivedi in his own 
Introduction, pp. xvi-xxiii. 
Having been quoted in Singabhupala’s Rasarnavasudhakara and 
commented upon by Mallinatha, both of the 
latter half of the 14th century, EkavalI 
cannot be put later than that century. The 
verses in praise of Nrsimha Deva, king 
Depends upon 
identification of 
panegyrised king. 
the 
the 
