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C. E. (]orraxulrBurt.r
carrtos crintaining a
sp11r1o1ls.
lrr
lrt)'.orr'rra ;rscr ibed tlrc autlror'shi1r oI tlre Janahr/tar,.rna to King I(umaradd.sar of [e1']611, basing his er-iclelce,,1 the stanza of the Fariik
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T'lre lrrnnitiu,ratl,u of KultirracLrjsa, od. by S. I)ar;l'il'itan. a.cl C. E. Go<iakunrbura with indexes, notes, tables aud apper.Ldix b]' C. E. Gocla,hunrburil".
Cokrutbo, r967.
Colonrbo 7, Cevlon).
Dharr.rna.pil:r, l,Ii,t,ata,
s4
l'ol. X l,
from tlre poem: n'lahisadhhsaritah saritas tata iti (XI, f4 Janakiharaqe yamakam. James D'Alwis described the poem inhis CatalogweT
in rB7o.
Aufrecht
contributed to the ZDMG, XVII, tracedlrvo stanzas {rom Kumaraddsa which were latel traced to the Jt|nahiharana (I, zq, XI, 66).
In another article lvhich Aufrecht cor-rtributed to the next'number of
the same Journal,e he pointed out that there are citations from
Kumaraddsa and ttre Jdnakr,karana in comrnentaries on the Atnarakosa,
namely, the Padacandrika of Brhaspati ancl the ttka of Rdyamukutamali. 1'hree of these, two under the name c,f I(umiraddsa, and the
ot\1 qs from the Janahthararya, have now been traced. (IX, tzc-d)
and XI, 7,4, 96) respectively, bnt one w'hich is said to be frorn the
Jinakiharana has not yet been detected (see below).
been
zahat
7.
8
it
note to a later number of ttre same journal,l'l Peter Peterson gave the
text of the verse of Raja3ekhara which mentions both the Janakrharan'a
and Krrmaradasa, as he found it in Jalhana's Suhtitu*tat'al,i:
Janakiharar.ram kartum ltaghuvamse sthite sati
kavih KumerradasaS ca Ravir.las ca yadi k-qamah'
In the same vear rvriting o n the Attcitl' alarihara of Kseluendla' lletersonla
to l(umirildlA-"a, and
discussed the folkru'ing rterse wliich irad been alreacllt tracerl b1t '\utreclrt
partlyr; and also in full bv B6htiingk.ta
Peterson had pointed out that the quotation: r'aratantL sampravadanti kukkut'dh-appearing in Ksemenhta's Aucitydlailturtt is one
from Kumaradi.sa.lE a g1ili.io has disagreed with this vier,v. On z8th
Januarv,
"Royal
I,
Ai;"ti.
Anthology".2o Here too tre cited the stanza attributed tti RdiaSekhara
r,vhiclr assigns the author-ship tif the JAnakr,horana to Km.niradasa.
In this paper he quotecl from'a contribition of Bdhtlingk entitlecl i'An
attempt to lay a literiiry contrnversv" and continued his arglllllents
on the relative dates of Patafrjali and I{um:rracl.asa. Peterson leferrecl
again to the Yamaka from tlie' .ltinaki,harana traced in r85tl by ,\u{recht
and he disagreed rvith the vierv that Ksemendrs's quotation is not ont-'
of Kumaradasa.
r3.
I4.
r5.
r6.
from Au{recht.
Varatann,, etc. AIiFRECHT, Coann. on. tJtl.ddi.siltras
:rlso as quoted b1, Nfiriyaqa on Kedirabhatla.
q5
Iingk.
st:Lnza
PETE RSON, " O t tine S d h t i ntu h ffi,a ati ot J alha+a, a new' Sanskrit Antholo gy",
.IRAS, Bombay Bru.nch, \rol. XVII. (No. XLVI), 1886, pp. ;7-7r. Cites
Rd,jaiekhara af p. 58; Bohtlingk at pp. 61-6t". For discussion on Kurnirrad6sa's date, see pp. 64-65.
s6
llli.
Zachariae
follcrvs:- No.
113421
u t n aslt d
A NOTE ON THIt
(i)
Cooray,,
iti
(ii)
97
Colcxnbci, 1887; (z) Kalidas calitq,a. llaaat KAli,dAsa-hiui'ltduge ha Kuniiradrlsa-niriitdwgA. da jiaita-kav1'a by H. J. A. l-ernaudo-"I-akminipahana
Fina115-, in r8gr, the same vear in rvhich the Sinhalese eclitior-r of
tlte JanahVhaya?.ra,-suxne (sec belo..l,) appearetl, Aufrecht in ht.s Catalogts Catalogoru,.rrl'26 mal<es the follou'ing notes cn Kumd.rrrclAsa and
the -f rlnak:ihol&na" p. rro: "Ktimitadasa, poet noted b1' Kshelnendra
in Aucityavicaracarca 24, Sp. p. r7, Skm., Sbhr,.,-Ravamukuta:
Janakiharana. Acadcm5 rS85, 277"p. z rrr ".linnkiharanr, kavr'l of
Iiumaradd.sa, Academy rE8s, 27.; quoterl bv llar,amukuta".
JAN'\KIHARAN.\
. .isatpa4{u-s
tu
jinakiharale:
mahisadhirsaritah saritas tatah
ca
parigato
pitah'.
The portion printed in italics in (ii) is a ?.1. we have not lleen able
to cite in our erlition at XI, 7l (b).Although the clrotatit)n No. r,
sorrnds like a passage frcm canto XVII of the .ldnahih,rwttna, it has not
29.
Sitzhttlesetz, Strassburg,
rqoo, p. 3.
e8
Vol.
XI,
beern found
raver managdarSitar,dsarah
sarabaa
of the eleventh
canto,
NI