वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

INTRODUCTION 5
' in Subandhu is our delight; who rejoiceth not in the author
of the _Raghu(vaṃśa)_¹? satisfaction delighteth in the son of
Dākṣī²; even Haricandra joyeth the heart; of faultless diction
is Śūra³; the words of Bhāravi are delightsome in theme;
Bhavabhūti doth infuse an inward pleasure.' Krishnamachariar
also cites an allusion to the author of the Vāsavadattā in Abhi-
navabhaṭṭabāṇa's Vīranārāyaṇacarita (l.c.) :
pratikavibhēdanabāṇaḥ kavitātarugahanaviharaṇamayūraḥ
sahṛdayalōkasubandhur jayati śrībhaṭṭabāṇakavirājaḥ,
' victorious is the noble Bhaṭṭabāṇa, king of poets, an arrow [or,
“ a Bāṇa ”] for piercing hostile poets; a peacock [or, “ a Mayūra ”]
for wandering through the forest of the trees of poetry; a goodly
kinsman [or, “ a Subandhu ”] for all connoisseurs.' An anony-
mous citation in the modern anthology Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra
(ed. Parab, 3 ed., p. 56, Bombay, 1891) runs:
māghaś cōrō mayūrō muraripur aparō bhāraviḥ sāravidyaḥ
śrīharṣaḥ kālidāsaḥ kavir atha bhavabhūtyāhvayō bhōjarājaḥ
śrīdaṇḍī ḍiṇḍimākhyaḥ śrutimukuṭagurur bhallaṭō bhaṭṭabāṇaḥ
khyātāś cā 'nyē subandhvādaya iha kṛtibhir viśvam āhlādayanti,
' Māgha, Cōra, Mayūra, Mura's second foe (Murāri), Bhāravi in
climax learned, Harṣa, Kālidāsa, and also the poet named
Bhavabhūti, Bhōjarāja, Daṇḍin (hight “ the Drum ”), Bhallaṭa
weighty with the diadem of fame, Bhaṭṭabāṇa, and other renowned
ones, such as Subandhu, here on earth rejoice the universe with
their compositions.'
In the latter part of the sixteenth century, Ballāla, in his
Bhōjaprabandha, which he set forth as a history of Bhōja, who
ruled at Dhārā (the modern Dhār) in the eleventh century,
mentioned Subandhu, according to some manuscripts, as one
of the thirteen principal members of the host of five hundred
literati who graced the royal court (cf. Wilson, Works, 5. 174,
London, 1865; Hall, Introd., p. 7, note 1); but the list varies so
extremely in the different manuscripts of the Bhōjaprabandha
¹ Kālidāsa. ² Pāṇini.
³ See Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, 1. 660, Leipzig, 1891.