son of Dvivedī Nīlakaṇṭha.

-Yājamānavidhi. B. J. Inst. III. 5599. PUL. II. App. p. 26 (^ºkārikā).

-C. Vivaraṇa on Rāmasahasranāma. B. IV. 88.

śaiva upāgama in Kiraṇāgama. See List in Kāmika.

one of the esoteric gurus of Abhinavagupta (a. of Tantrālokavyākhyā). See Kas. Texts.
30. pp. 192. 196. also K. C. Pandey, Abhinavagupta; p. 465.

by Candraśekharakavi. Sūcīpattra 89.

father of Rucikara (a. of Siddhāntasaṅgraha, Bikaner 6574).

-Rohiṇīkathā or
^ºvratakathā. RASB. XIII. ii. 249.

-Śaṅkhadevāṣṭaka. Moodbidri DC. pp. 40. 193 (nos. 393. 397). [Page009a]

Ptd. Manik. Dig. Jain Granthamālā Ser. 21, Bombay, 1927.

Works ascribed to Bhānukīrti:

-Āgamabhāvasiddhapūjā. Amer, Jaipur p. 170

-Āditya(ravi)vārakathā. Rajasthan Jain Pt. II. p. 341 (in a collection). V. p. 1095 (in a
collection).

-Caturvidhasiddhacakrapūjā. Amer, Jaipur p. 54. Rajasthan Jain Pt. II. p. 52.

See Paṭṭāvalī p. 45 (no. 56).

alternately told in Skt. vv. and Malayalam vv. and prose; by Uṇṇikiḍāva Tampuran.

Ptd. Pattambi, 1896.

preceptor of the a. of C. on Siddhāntakaumudī of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, Baroda 6319 (a).

or Candraprabha.

-Arghavidhi. Cordier II. p. 156.

-Pratiṣṭhāvidhi. ibid.

-Ratnatrayamaṅgalagāthā. Bud. Cordier III. p. 97.

Jain.

-(Sarva)Sādhāraṇajinastavana. Rajasthan Jain Pt. V. p. 766. RORI. XXIII. 450.

Jain. son and disciple of Sūracandra; Paṇḍit of the court of Akbar; [Page009b] known for his
religious activities such as repeating the 1000 names of the Sun, banishing cow-slaughter, etc., and
for releasing a Tīrthaṅkara by name Śatruñjaya; preceptor of Siddhicandra (a. of C. on
Bhayaharastotra, BORI. D. XIX. i. 2. 396); teacher of the a. of Tīrthamālāstavana, RORI. XIX.
347; of Devacandragaṇin (a. of C. on Śobhanastuti, Jainagranthāvalī, p. 293); of Śānticandra
(a. of Caturviṃśatijinastuti, RORI. I. 944).

See Siddhicandra Upādhyāya, Bhānucandragaṇicarita, Singh Jain Granthamālā, Calcutta,
1941.

-C. on Abhidhānacintāmaṇināmamālā of Hemacandrācārya. L. D. Ser. 5. 6121 (inc.). RORI.
VII. 912 (inc.).

-C. on Kādambarī; co-authored by his disciple Siddhicandra. See under the text.

Addl. mss.:

Bodl. Sup. 334. SB. New DC. XI. ii. 104455.

-Viviktanāmasaṅgraha or Nāmasaṅgraha. based on Nāmasaṅgraha of Hemacandra. Alph. List Beng.
Govt. p. 106 (no. 3050). JASB. NS. 1908 p. 432a (no. 3050). JBhP. I. 1448. L. 4015. RASB. VI. 4695.
SB. New DC. XI. 43678.

-C. on Vasantarājaśakuna or Śakunanirṇaya of Vasantarāja. jy. corrected by his disciple
Siddhicandra. [Page010a]

Baroda II. 2917 (inc.). Jaipur Mus Ser. 2. p. 98. L. D. Ser. 15. 7511. Extr. p. 452. Lucknow Skt.
Parishad II. iv. p. 300 (inc.).

Ptd. Veṅk. Press, Bombay, 1906.

-C. on Vāsavadattā of Subandhu. RORI. IV. 2394.

-C. Vṛtti on Vivekavilāsa of Jinadatta Sūri. JBhP. I. 2380. L. D. Ser. 20. ii.
403.

father of Raghunātha (a. of Prayogatattva, Bik. 952).

-Khecarabhūṣaṇa. jy. B. IV. 120.

See Sen, Bibl. of Astron. p. 18.

-C. on Keralaśāstra. jy. VRI. IV. 12771. (inc.). Extr. p. 559.

or Vīreśvaradīkṣita or Rāmāśrama, son of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita. For brief notices on this
a., See Kane, HDS. I. ii. p. 1063a; also Dr. V. Raghavan, Bhoja's Śṛ. Pra. pp. 615,
622, 720, 760, 791.

For his genealogy, see Belvalkar, Systems of Skt. Gr. p. 46.

-C. Sudhā on Amarakośa. See under the text.

Addl. mss.:

Alph. List Beng. Govt. p. 103 (no. 942). Andhra Uni. 82. 83-85 (inc.). 86. BISM. [Page010b] (Ptd.
Cat.) 7/50. 29/1520. 34/164. 34/ 372. 41/78. 41/90. 50/7. Bomb. Uni. Velankar 1335. 1336-37 (inc.).
Bṛhatsūcī, Nepal IX. p. 40 (inc.). Calicut Uni. 41 (inc.). Fasc. II. 212. Gough p. 88. Jaipur
Mus. Ser. 2. p. 7 (2 mss.). Jha G. N. I. ii. 4212-13 (inc.). II. ii. 9238 (inc.). Kuru. Uni. I.
1069. L. D. Ser. 36. p. 324 (3 mss.). Mysore N. D. XV. 47592. Extr. pp. 442-43. 47593-94. NPS. I.
pp. 340 (inc.). 438. 452. 454. Paliyam 222 (c). 835. Prayag II. 4321-22 (inc.). 4338. Rajasthan Jain
Pt. IV. pp. 267. 274. Ranbir I. p. 238 (inc.). RORI. I. 2372 (inc.). 2373-77 (diff. kāṇḍas). II.
B. 4507-09. III. B. 6949-52 (diff. kāṇḍas). IV. 2594. 2599 (inc.). 2600-2601. VI. 46 (inc.).
Extr. pp. 152-53. VII. 1294-96. XII. 2635 (inc.). 2636-37. XIII. 2793-96. XIV. 1485 (1st kāṇḍa).
1486 (2nd kāṇḍa). XVI. 2655-56. 2657 (inc.). XXI. 4970-76 (inc.). XXII. 2071. 2077 (inc.). XXIV.
1483. 1485. 1486 (inc.). XXV. 3686-87. 3689-90 (inc.). SB. New DC. XI. 43606. 43614. 43617 (inc.).
43631 (inc.). 43656 (inc.). 43727. 43731. 43786 (inc.). 43799. 43963 (inc.). ii. 106906-07 (inc.).
106990 (inc.). 106991. 106992-94 (inc.). 106997 (inc.). 107026 (inc.). 107039-41 (inc.). 107126.
107317. 107520. 107524 (inc.). 107526. 107531 (inc.). 107563. TA. 1920. Trav. Uni. 472-A (inc.).
5219 (inc.). 13969-A. Trav. Uni. Sup. 15048. (inc.). 15387. 15746-B (inc.). VRI. I. 3060. Extr. p.
90. iii. 9568 (inc.). IV. 12673 (inc.). VVRI. I. pp. 58. 59 (7 mss.; diff. kāṇḍas). 60 (9 mss.).
Wai D. II. 9462-63. 9464-70 (inc.). [Page011a]

For Ptd. edns. see under the text.

-Dānaviveka. See under the text.

Addl. mss.:

BHU. 3812 (^ºvidhi). Jha G. N. I. ii. 694 (inc.). NPS. II. p. 494. RORI. VI. 46. Extr.
p. 152. SB. New DC. III. 13689. Wai D. I. 3187-88.

See Kane, HDS. I. ii. p. 1043b.

father of Kālidāsa (a. of Svaraśāstra, Baroda II. 11555).

or Bhānukara of Mithilā, son of Gaṇapati and grandson of Mahādeva; 16th cent. eulogises Sher
Shah (Nizam Shah).

For the identity of a., quotations of his verses, which are larger in number in
Padyāmṛtataraṅginī and in anthologies and other details about him, see ABORI XVII.
pp. 243 ff; also JASB (NS) XI (1915) p. 414.

For a detailed account of Bhānukara or Bhānudatta, see Muslim Patronage to Skt.
Learning, pp. 2-32.

-Alaṅkāratilaka. See under the text.

Addl. mss.:

Baroda II. 8207 (inc.). 11429.

See Richard Schmidt, Bhānudatta's Alaṅkāratilaka, Festgale Jacobi, Bonn, 1926, pp.
180-84. [Page011b]

-Kumārabhārgavīya. IO. 4040. Sūcīpattra 7.

-Gītagaurīśa or
^ºpati (saṅgīta kāvya). imitation of Gītagovinda. See under the text.

Addl. mss.:

Baroda II. 9669. 11763 (inc.). Bṛhatsūcī, Nepal II. p. 72 (inc.). IO. 3847. RORI. IV. 2273.
XV. 1354. XXI. 4479. XXIV. 1337. Wai D. II. 8887.

Ptd. Grantharatnamālā, Vol. II. p. 33-92.

See S. N. Dasgupta, HSL. Classical Period, Vol. I. p. 396 fn; also S. K. De, Aspects of
Skt. Lit. p. 141.

-Rasataraṅgiṇī. on erotics. in 6 chs. BHU. 6805-07 (inc.). Mysore N. D. VIII. 28634-35. RORI.
I. 2461-63.

-Rasapārijāta. Darbhanga Raj 1685-86 (inc.).

Ptd. ed. by Badrinath Jha, Motilal Banarsidass, Lahore. See Kane, HSP. p. 431b.

-Rasamañjarī or Śṛṅgārarasamañjarī. BHU. 6812-29. 6843. Bṛhatsūcī, Nepal II. pp. 28-30
(9 mss.; 5 inc.). Darbhanga Raj 1702. Jha G. N. III. 11659 (inc.). Mithilā. Ranbir II. pp. 282
(inc.). 284 (3 mss.; 1 inc.). 286 (2 mss.).

-Śṛṅgāradīpikā. Oudh III. 12.

-Pārijāta. dh. Mithilā I. 257. [Page012a]

-Muhūrtasāra. B. IV. 178. Firenze 464 (^ºmañjarī).

-Sandhyāpaddhati for Yajurvedins.

Ptd. with Hindi transl. Lahore, 1877.

of modern Jalapaiguri.

-Kṛtyārṇavatantra. Assam Tantra 20 (ms. dated 1793 A. D.). Coochbehar 57. 80.

son of Nārāyaṇa Dīkṣita.

-Mātṛkāvarṇanighaṇṭu or Mātṛkāvarṇasaṅgraha. tantra. Mithilā. Ranbir III. p. 1152.
Stein 233.

or Bhānujīdīkṣita, son of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita. See under Bhānujīdīkṣita.

poet q. in Vidyākarasahasraka, v. 519. See ibid. Intro. p. 10.