KADAMBAR, III tells us that he wrote is Kaikanthabharata and Suvitta tilaka in the reign of king Anantaraja (1028-1063 A. D.) of Kashmir, and quotes a verse of king Kalasa ( 1080 A. D. 1088 A.D.). So he flourished in the latter half of the 11th century A. D. 3) Namisadlhm, the commentator of Rudrata's Kavy laikीra, mentions the Kadambar and the Harshacharita as specimens of the two types of prose composition, viz. Katha and Akhyीyika* . From the last verse of his com nent, we learn that Naisadhu wrote in 1089 A. D. (4) Bhoja in his Sarasvatikanthabharana has a few references to Bapa. In one place we are told that Rana does not excel so much in poetry as in prose. The exact dates of Bhija's reign (which was very long, extending over 50 ears) are not yet fixed. But he seems to have come to the throne in the second decade of the 11th century. (5) The Dasarpa of Dhananjaya, mentions Bana by namet. Dhananjaya was patronized by king Munjax. If unia is the uncle of the great Bhja, as it seems to be the case, Dhananjaya flourished before 1000 A. D. (6) Abhinanda wrote the Kadambarikathasra, iu which he faithfully versifies the story of Bana's Kadambari. Abhinanda tells us that his great-great-grand-father, Sakti svamin, was a minister of Muktapida, a king of the Karkota family. Abhinanda is praised for the excellence of his
- See comment on काव्यालंकार of रुद्रट XVI. 22 and 26.
- ‘यादृगद्यविधौ बाणः यद्यबन्धे न तादृशः 7 p. 142 of the 1st Vol .
of he Benares edition. See p. ]46 of the same volume for a quotation from Bana . ‘हर इव जितमन्मथः गुह इवाप्रतिहतशक्तिः, यथा हि महाश्वेतावर्णनावसरे भट्याणस्य' under II. 35 (निर्णय edu, ); ‘यथा कादम्बर्यां वैशम्पायनस्य’ under I. 66.
- ‘आविष्कृतं मुञ्जमहीशगोठीवैदग्ध्यभाजा दशरूपमेतत्' last verse of
the दशरूप. शं ‘स शक्तिस्वामिनं पुत्रमवाप श्रुतशालिनम् । राज्ञः कर्कोटवंशस्य मुक्त- पीडस्य मत्रिणम् ।। verse 7 of कादम्बरीकथासार
