XXIV INTRODUCTION should unconsciously imitate in thought and expression his favourite author. Even in Kalidasa we recognise the words of the Mahabharata, and the Bhagavatgt. It is further argued that the Parvatiparinaya is, as compared with the Harshacharita the , common-. We and Kadambariquito place bhink that even not6 this, if entirely true, would militate against Bana's authorship of the work. The work might have been written before Bana had secured the mastory of his mature years. Besides we must Bana not forget that was handicapped in verse. We have quoted above a critics opinion that Bana does not excel so much in as in verse prose That remark could not have been based on the few verses that occur in the two prose works of . They Banarather refer to some composition in verse written by Bana. We suggest that the Parvatparinava may of . be one themChangapala and Gunavinayagauni, the commentators of the Nalachamp of Trivikramabhatta, inform us that Bana wrote a drana entitled Mukutataditaka* We about this know nothing drama . , from other sourcesKshemendra, nuotes a verse as Banasad plight of Kadambark 's, in which the due to sepa ration from her loveris decribed. It seems therefore that Bana wrote, story of according to Kshemendra, the Kadambari in verse also In the Kavyaprakasa we that read Bana obtained money king A few are of from Harshay. scholars opinion that the drama Ratnavali was really the work of Bana, who, in return for the money bestowed by king Harsha upon him, pathrons . published the work in his 'nameThis view seems to us entirely wrong. In the first place, there are three dramasthe Ratnavali, the Priyadarsika and the , , Nagananda, authoship .by Harsha the of which is claimed .
- “यदाह मुकुटताडितकनाटके षाणः आशाःप्रोषितदिग्गजा इव गुहाः प्रध्वस्त
सिंहा इव द्रोण्यः कृत्तमहाद्रमा प्रोरखातशैला इव बिभ्राणाः क्षयकारिक्त इव भुवः । सकलत्रैलोक्यकष्टां दशां जाताः क्षणमहारथाः कुरुपतेर्देवस्य शून्याः सभाः + भट्टबाणस्य-हारो प्रालेयशीकरमुच ‘यथा वा जलार्द्रवसनं नलिनीदलानि स्तुहिनांशुभासः । यस्येन्धनानि सूरसानि च चन्दनानि निर्वाणमेष्यति कथं स मनो भवान्निः ॥’ विरहव्यथावर्णना त्र विप्रलम्भभरभग्नधैर्यायाः कादम्बर्या &c." औचि त्यविचारचर्चा. ‘श्रीहर्षादेर्वाणादीनामिव धनम्. Many ALSS. read धावफादीनाम. ७१७
