Bud. fuller name is Vārttikālaṁkāra. Prajñākaragupta's Bhāṣya in prose [Page396-b] and
verse on Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika.

a form of literary composition among the Buddhists, not a mahāśāstra, but a short summary of
the salient features of the system. See Wint., HIL. II. p. 630. Tucci, JASB(NS) XXVI
(1930) p. 127.

Subandhu (Vāsavadattā, Bauddhasangatim iva alaṁkāra-bhūṣitām) refers to this type of
work.

E. g. Abhisamayālaṁkāra, Sūtrālaṁkāra etc.

Bud. by Dharmakīrti. CPB. 271. This may be Pramāṇavārttika of Dharmakīrti with
Prajñākaragupta's C. called Vārttikālaṁkāra or Alaṁkāra.

Bud. mentioned in a list of works in an Insc. of 1442 at Pagan. See Bode, Pāli Lit.
Burma, p. 108.

See Bode, Pāli Lit. Burma p. 108. nos. 242. 261.

Bud.

--Daśatattva. Cordier II. p. 155.

by Leśabhatilaka (?) D. p. 39. Gough p. 99 (inc.). According to the Jinaratnakośa of H. D.
Velankar, this is really Hemacandra's Dvyāśrayakāvya with Abhayatilaka's C.

śaiva. Upāgama in Sahasrāgama. See list in Kāmika.

by Viśveśvara of Almora.

Ptd. Bombay.

Bud.

--Śrīvajramālāmahāyoga tantraṭīkāgambhīrārtha dīpikā. Cordier II. p. 134.

Prajñākaragupta (a of the Vartikālaṁkāra on Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika).
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Rahula Sankrityayana says that in Tibet, the a. is known also as Alaṁkāra Paṇḍita.

One and a half Kārikās of Alaṁkārakāra are q. in Rāmakaṇṭha's C. on the
Nareśvaraparīkṣā of Sadyojyotis, Kas. Texts 45, pp. 52, 53.

alaṁk. (not known if this is Kuvalayānandakārikā or another work). Ānandāśrama 576.
Bikaner 3546 (by son of Janārdana). BORI. 226 of 1875-76. BORI. D. XII. 4 (The last illustrative
verse here is found in the Kuvalayānanda). D. p. 85. K. 98. Report XV.

alaṁk. by Śaṭhavairi Vidvat. MT. 4843 (b) (fr.).

alaṁk. by Viśveśvara, son of Lakṣmīdhara. Alwar 1033. Extr. 215. NW. 608.

Cranganore II. 406.

alaṁk. Mysore I. p. 295 (inc.). (from Utprekṣā to Aprastutapraśaṁsā).

alaṁk. by Vallabha Bhaṭṭa (of recent times). Ptd. Grantharatnamālā II. 1888.

alaṁk. Deo 41.

alaṁk. Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 6. MD. 12784 (ms. dated 1831 A. D.).

alaṁk. R. A. Sastri II. 197. SK. Ray 327.

alaṁk. and C. by Kalyāṇa Subrahmaṇya of Perūr family; grandson of Gopāla and son of
Subrahmaṇya; patronised by (Bāla) Rāma Varman, king of Travancore (1758-98), who is eulogised in
the work; deals only with Arthālaṅkāras. GD. 1324. MD. 12790. Śg. II. p. 80. no. 125. Extr. p.
221. [Page397-b]

alaṁk. by Paramānandadāsa alias Kavikarṇapūra Gosvāmin. AK. 689 (inc.). Alwar 1034. Extr.
216. AS. p. 13. BORI. 689 of 1891-95. BORI. D. XII. 6 (with a.'s Vṛtti). Cr. Cs. VII. A. 60. Dacca
2363. 2394. 3471. 3472. 4510. Filliozat 192. L. 1662. Oxf. 209b (2 mss.). Pheh. 15. PUL. II. p. 196
(with C.). Radh. 46 (with C.). RASB. VI. 3870. Sūcīpattra 14. Tu7b. 5. Vaṅgīya p. 214. Varendra
1021.

An a.'s own C. ‘Kiraṇa’ mentioned (Kane, Intro. to Sāhityadarpaṇa p. clxi a and De,
Skt. Poe. I. p. 260) seems to be a mistake. ‘Kiraṇa’ is the name of the sections of the A.
Kaustubha; the C. meant is evidently the author's own Vṛtti;

Ptd. Varendra Res. Soc. 1928.

--C. an. Sūcīpattra 14.

--C. by Sārvabhauma, pupil of a Cakravarttin.

Dacca 2363. 2394. 3471.

--C. by Lokanātha Cakravarttin. Alwar 1034. Extr. 216. AS. p. 13. L. 1663. Oxf. 209b. RASB. VI.
4871. Vaṅgīya p. 214.

Ptd. an. in the Varendra Res. Soc. edn. of 1926 as an ‘old C.’.

--C. Dīdhitiprakāśikā by Vṛndāvanacandra. IO. 1195. Tu7b. 5.

--C. Sārabodhinī by Viśvanātha Cakravarttin. Cr. Filliozat 192.

Ptd. in the Murshidabad edn. of the A. K. of 1899 and the Berhampore edn. of 1900.

and C. by Viśveśvara, son of Lakṣmīdhara. B. III. 44. BL. 296. BORI. 405 of 1892-95. BORI.
D. XII. [Page398-a] 5. Bu7hler 542. IO. 1196. 5226. Jodhpur 1832. K. 98. NP. VIII. 16. Peters. V. p.
259 (no. 405). PUL. II. p. 196 (2 mss.). Stein 58 (2 mss.).

--C. by Karṇapūra. PUL. II. p. 196.

Ptd. K. M. 66.

by Veṅkaṭācārya, son of Aṇṇayārya of Surapuram and of the Tirumala Bukkapaṭṭaṇam
Śrīśaila family; also called Kirīṭi Veṅkaṭācārya; patronised by Veṅkaṭa, son of Pāmi
Nāyaka; (died in 1802 A. D.). Adyar II. 33a (2 mss.). Adyar D. V. 1616. Amarcinta III. 4. Gov. Or.
Libr. Madras 6 (2 mss.). MD. 12785-9. MT. 369 (a). 4338. 5095. 5439 (a). Mysore I. p. 295 (6 mss.).
Oppert I. 167. 951 (?). 5891. II. 582. 1300. 3575. Rice 280. 284. Śg. I. 51.

See also V. Raghavan, J. Andhra His. Res. Soc. XIII. i. pp. 17 and 20-22.