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The Date of Śyāmilaka's Pādatāḍitaka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

T. Burrow
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In 1922 a collection of four Bhāṇas was published from South Indian Manuscripts under the title of Caturbhāṇī by M. Ramakrishna Kavi and S. K. Ramanatha Sastri. In a short introduction the editors discussed the age and authorship of these works and assigned them varying degrees of antiquity. As the type of dramatic composition in Sanskrit known as bhāṇa, although ancient in origin, had hitherto been represented only by very modern examples, it was naturally a matter of considerable interest and importance for literary history, if the plays should turn out to belong to an early period as the editors claimed.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 78 , Issue 1-2 , January 1946 , pp. 46 - 53
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1946

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page 48 note 1 P. 8. Aho nu khalu Jambudvīpatilakabhūtasya … sārvabhaumanarendrādhiṣṭhitasya sārvabhaumanagarasya parā śrīy; on p. 10 Sārvabhauma is used by itself as the name of the city.

page 48 note 2 Smith, Vincent, Early History of India4, p. 307Google Scholar.

page 49 note 1 Worthy of attention are similarities in idea and expression between the first verse quoted above and a verse from the Bhitari Inscription of Skandagupta. These cannot be altogether accidental:—

Pitari divam upete viplutām vanmśalakṣmīṃ

bhujabalavijitārir yaḥ pratiṣṭhāpya bhūyah |

jitam iti paritoṣān mātaraṃ sāsranetraṃ

hataripur iva Kṛṣṇo Devakīm abhywpetaḥ, ||

page 50 note 1 JRAS., 1928, pp. 904-5.

page 51 note 1 Mehrauli Pillar Inscr. Oil, iii, 141. Tīrtvā sapta mukhāni yena samare Sindhor jitā Vāhlikāti.

page 52 note 1 For a list of characters see Professr Thomas, , JRA8., 1924, p. 262Google Scholar.

page 52 note 2 The text reads °dattam,

page 52 note 3 Rapson, , Coins of the Andhara Dynasty, etc., p. 198Google Scholar.

page 52 note 4 Ibid., pp. clviii ff.