Karan Singh of Bikaner, son of Śūrasiṁha and father of Anūpasiṁha (1674-1704 A. D.). Patron
of

--Dinakara Bhaṭṭa (?) a. of Sāhityakalpadruma, Bikaner 3731-35 (d. 1666 A. D.).

--Mudgala, a. of Karṇatoṣa, metrics, in 1645 A. D. Bikaner 5498.

--Hosiṅga Kṛṣṇa, a. of Karṇāvataṁsa or Duṣṭadamana kāvya. Bikaner 2974-82.

See Adyar Library Bulletin, IV. 51 ff., VIII. 143-5, X. 237-8 and NIA. VI. p.
16.

--Sūryastava. Dacca.

poet. Gāthāsaptaśatī I. 54.

or
karNarAja Q. in Gāthāsaptaśatī. He is probably identical with Śāntikarṇa (also
called Caṇḍaśrī in the Purāṇas), the 12th descendant of Hāla and may have reigned from
C. 229-38 A. D. See IHQ. XXIII. p. 304.

father of Paraśurāma mentioned in the latter's (Mahā)Rudrapaddhati written in 1459 A. D.
Bomb. Uni. 1137. IO. 1786. RASB. II. 1598.

or
kallaka criticised by Akalaṅka. See Siddhiviniścayaṭīkā, Banaras edn. 1959, Intro.
pp. 45-6. Cf. next.

Bud. logician; criticises Maṇḍana; probably wrote between 822-984 A. D.

--Nairātmyasiddhi. Q. in the next (pp. 32, 81, 82, 92, 95).

--Pramāṇavārttika ṭīkā. Edn. R. Sankrityayana, Kitab Mahal, Allahabad, 1943.

or
karNakavacaharaNa another title of Karṇabhāra. Trav. Uni. 3168E. Trippūṇittura
98F.

kāvya. by Haridevamiśra alias Lālamiśra, probably identical with a. of [Page183-b]
Śṛṅgārasañjīvanī ptd. as App. to Akabarasāhīśṛṅgāradarpaṇa, Ganga Ori. Ser. 1,
Bikaner, 1943. K. 56. See also P. K. Gode, Stud. in Ind. Lit. Hist. II. p. 211.

in three Kutūhalas; Varṇana, Sambhoga and Maṅgala. by Bholānātha Śukla, son of Nandarāma,
a Kānyakubja brāhmaṇa; written to please his patron Bhaṭṭa Rājāji Sadāśiva, son of
Ratneśvara and guru of Savai Mādhavasiṁha and Pratāpasiṁha of Jaipur.

Ptd. Rajasthan Oriental Series, 26, Jaipur, 1957.

--Tarumahimā. śilpa. CPB. 1937.

composed in honour of King Karṇa (also called Kāyā or Kāyajit) of Kaccha of the Yādava
dynasty, in 1696 A. D. King Karṇa was the son of Rāya Dhanajit, son of Tamāri, son of Megha, son
of Ravi, son of Bhārā, son of Khiṅgāri, son of Hammīra. by Kakkā Bhaṭṭa, son of
Tuhinakiraṇa. BBRAS. 1243. Dāhilakṣmī XLIII. 5. PUL. II. p. 272 (a. mentioned as Kākā
Bhaṭṭa).

Bud. Nepal II. p. 252. S. A. Paris 14 (16).

Bud. Cordier III. p. 107.

Bud. Cordier III. p. 150.

or
karNasantoSa or
ka. vilAsa metrics. by Mudgala; written under the patronage of Mahārāja
Karaṇasiṁhajī. Bik. 597. Bikaner 5498 (inc.).

or
karNasiMha (1584-1628 A. D.) of Rāṇakavaṁśa, ruler of Citrakūṭa; mentioned in
Jagatprakāśakāvya of Viśvanātha Vaidya, composed in praise of [Page184-a] and at the instance
of Jagatsiṁha, son of Karṇasiṁha. Peters. III. pp. 354-5.

ruler of Ekacakrapura; great grandfather of Sūryasena under whose patronage Allāḍanāthā
wrote Nirṇayāmṛta. IO. i. p. 492a. See NCC. I. p. 302a.

father of Cālukya Jayasiṁha Siddharāja, patron of Vāgbhaṭa I (Vāgbhaṭālaṅkāra).

student of Vardhamāna, mentioned in the latter's Kātantravistara; see under Kātantra below;
probably ruler of Gujarat, 1088 A. D. (Belvalkar, Systems of Skt. Gr. p. 88).

Cālukya king of Anhilvad (1064-94 A. D.), son of Bhīmadeva; hero of Bilhaṇa's
Karṇasundarī.

king praised in the anthology Varṇanāsārasaṁgraha of Ayyā Dīkṣita or Nīlakaṇṭha
Dīkṣita II (C. beg. of 18th Cent.).

See V. Raghavan, Adyar Library Bulletin, V. iii. p. 126.

Q. in Sāhityadarpaṇa. VI. 327/328 as an example of Apabhraṁśa mahākāvya.

evidently from M. Bhārata. Khuperkar I. xii. 4.

MD. 6028. 6029. 6030. 15166.