3 ध्वनियुक्काव्यसरणिः शस्तेति प्रोच्यते बुधैः । एतस्माद् ध्वनियुक्ता सा रचिता नाटकद्वयी || द्रष्टव्या भवता सेयं नाट्यलक्षणवेदना | तां [पश्यन्नबधार्यैषा] सद्सद्वेति कथ्यताम् || साधुश्चेत् प्रेक्षको भूयाद् भवानस्मि नटस्तथा । प्रयोगमार्गं भवते दर्शयिष्यामि तत्त्वतः ॥ भूयश्चारोपयिष्यामि रङ्गमेतत्कुशीलवैः । इति तेन प्रोक्तस्तद्दर्शितप्रयोगमार्गोऽहम् From the above remarks, it is evident that our author was a king of the country of Kerala and that Mahodayapura was a city that could be reached from Parameswaramangalam by a river called Chûrni. It is generally known that what is called Mahodayapura is none other than the present "Tiruvanchik- kalam", a village near Kodungallur in the Cochin state and that the river Chârni is what is now known as Periyar. As for the place Parameswaramangalam mentioned in the introduc- tory stanzas of the Vyangyavyákhya (), it might have been the home of the Brahmin author of the said Vyangyavyakhya (व्यङ्गयव्याख्या) ; for the homes of the Numbâdiri Brahmins of high descent have been known under such appellations, for example, Desamangalam, Nárâyana- mangalam &c. Where that place is now to be found, what other name it has now assumed, and if any descendant of the commentator still lives from whom perhaps the date of his ancestor, the contemporary of Kulasekhara Varma, might be ascertained - these have been much inquired after but no definite information has been obtained; but, from the www.
- My friend Sriman Kunji Kuttan Tampuran of Kodungallur, to whom a re-
ference was made by me about this topic. has replied as follows:- According to local tradition, Vasudeva Bhatta,the author of Yudhishthiravijaya,and a Brahmin by name Tola, who was no better than a court-jester, flourished in the said King Kulasekhara's court and that the latter is also said to have composed a Kavya about the said Kulasekhara's dynasty. It is possible that this Tola might have been the author of the Vyangyavyakhya.
