KADAMBARi XXXIII here. Bhanuchandra, as we learn from the introductory verses and the colophon at the end of the Purvabhaga was a Jaina Pandit, a pupil of Surachandra and was honoured by Emperor Akbar with the t^tle of Upadhyaya. He wrote his comment on the Purvabhaga to please his pupil Siddha- chandra. Siddhachandra, who also was patronized by Akbar, wrote the comment on the Uttarabhaga. The commentary of Bhanuchandra and Siddhachandra repeats almost every word of the text and is very useful in its own way in understanding the text of the Kadambari. But it fails to satisfy all the requirements of the modern University student. The commentary very rarely discusses various readings, seldom cites parallel passages, and hardly gives accurate references to such works as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas. Moreover the explanations proposed by the commentary are often far-fetched and unsatisfactory* and in a few cases positively wrongf. Our notes, besides containing all the help that the commentary affords in respect of dissolution of compounds and quotations from kos'as, try to meet the requirements of University students. It is for this reason that the commentary has been dispensed with by us in this edition. From the notes of Dr. Peterson it appears that S'iva- rama Tripathi wrote a commentary on the Kadambari ( Purva-bhaga ) called ' Chashaka '. Dr. Peterson also quotes the remarks of two other commentators, Balkrishna and Sukhakara on the Purvabhaga. From the catalogue of the MSS. in the collection of the learned Govindas'astri Nirantara of Nasik, we learn that Vaidyanatha wrote a com- mentary on the Purvabhaga called Vishamapadavivriti. Aufrecht in his catalogue mentions two more commentators of the Kadambari, viz. Mahadeva and Surachandra. Mr. T. Gauapatis'astri of Trivandrum kindly informs us that he possesses two commentaries on the Kadambari written in old Malayalam characters on palm-leaves ; one of them named
- See our Notes pp. 171, 235, 286.
t Vide our notes pp. 127, 182, 232.
