AMARAKOŚA The next author is Bhāguri. There are nearly twenty quotations from his work in Svāmin's commentary; he is also often cited by Sarvananda¹ and others, including Malli., who cites him a number of times. XX 'गन्धर्वपृषतश्चेति ज्ञेयाः सारङ्गजातयः' इति भागुरि: ( p. 334 ) 'वाहित्थं वातकुम्भाधः' इति भागुरिः (p. 507 ) ( His work was probably called Trikāṇḍa, different of course from Amara's work which also goes by that name: for this we have the authority of Purusottama, the author of the Bhāṣāvṛtti.² According to tradition Amara is believed to have been one of the nine gems' in the court of the legendary king Vikramaditya, the founder of the Vikrama era, whose identity is a mystery, and who is generally believed to have flourished in the first century B.C. The basis for this tradi- tion is the well-known verse from Jyotirvidabharaṇa, Dhanvan- tarikṣapanakamarasimha . He is earlier than the 6th cent. A.D.; for the Ak. was translated into Chinese by Guṇarāta, evidently a Buddhist.4 The earliest quotation from his work has been traced by Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar to the Nyasa of Jinendrabuddhi, who has been shown to have flourished in the beginning of the 8th cent. A.D.5 The line in question is tantram pradhane siddhante' (Ak., III. 3. 186) which is found quoted in the Kāśikāvivaraṇapañcikā.6 A reference to Amarakośa is also found in the Amoghavṛtti, '3 1 तथा च भागुरिः – 'कोषमाहुर्हिरण्यं च हेमरूपं कृताकृतम्', Tikāsarvasva, III, p. 230. He quotes him 15 times. 2 JOR, Madras, VI, p. 253. ' धन्वन्तरिक्षपणकामरसिंहशङ्कुवेतालमट्टघटकर्परकालिदासाः। ख्यातो वराहमिहिरो नृपतेः सभायां रत्नानि वै वररुचिर्नव विक्रमस्य || 4 Max Müller, India, What can It Teach Us? (p. 328), quoted in K. G. Oka's ed. of Ak., p. 9, and in Kk., GOS ed., vol. I, p. xvii. 5 S. K. Belvalkar, Systems of Skt. Grammar, p. 38. 6 Ak., Oka's ed., p. 9.
