and C. enigmatology. imitation of the Vidagdhamukhamaṇḍana. by Viśveśvara, son of
Lakṣmīdhara (different from a. of C. on Naiṣadha. See Adyar Library Bulletin, IX. p.
160).

Ptd. K. M. Gucch. 8 (1891), pp. 51-108.

poem in 1572 ślokas, consisting of stotras, descriptions, replies to addresses and
felicitations and miscellaneous topics by Kavīndrācārya. ref. to Kavīndrācārya's successful
intervention for the abolition of pilgrim's tax imposed at Kāśī and Prayāga during the reign of
Shah Jehan; also to Dara Shikoh as the Emperor's Viceroy at Agra (see RASB. IV. 3111).

Alph. List Beng. Govt. p. 24. Ānandāśrama 4027. Dāhilakṣmī XXIII. 1. IIO. Stein 275
(inc.). IO. 3947 (1st leaf of ms. about 1650 A. D.). Jodhpur 191. K. 56. L. 4028. Mack. 172. Oudh
VIII. 28. RASB. IV. 3111. [Page288-b]

An edn. of the work based on 5 of the above mss. is under preparation by V. Raghavan.

eulogies on Dara Shikoh and his wife, in Vrajabhāṣā mixed with Sanskrit verses, quotations
and brief sections in Sanskrit.

Mss. in Bikaner and Udaipur. On this work, see V. Raghavan Indica, Ind. Hist. Res. Inst.
Silver Jub. Com. Vol., Bombay, 1953, pp. 335-341.

Ptd. Rajasthan Ori. Res. Inst., Jodhpur, Rajasthan & Hindi Ser.

--Tattvadīpikā. jy. Skt. Coll. Ben. 1904, p. 17 (no. 1378).

--Padyapañcāśikā. jy. BORI. 422 of 1895-98 (Kavīndra). CPB. 2859 (K. Kṛṣṇa). Peters. VI.
p. 96 (no. 422). Extr. p. 32 (Kavīndra).

--Kaṭākṣaṣo1ḍaśī. stotra. MT. 4210 (b).

See above p. 119a.

--Ratnāvalī. med. NP. I. 16.

tributes to Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī in verse and prose by 69 contemporary Pandits, praising
his patronage of Sanskrit learning and persuading Emperor Shah Jehan to abolish the pilgrim tax
imposed by the Moghul Emperor at Benares and Allahabad. Compiled by (Kavīndra) Kṛṣṇa, librarian
of Kavīndrācārya.

Alph. List Beng. Govt. p. 24 (2 mss.). BBRAS. 1165. Bhau Dāji 114. Bikaner 2989. L. 815. 4154.
Lahore 4. [Page289-a] R. A. Sastri III. p. 231. RASB. IV. 3110. Rep. Raj. & C. I. p. 51. Stein
66. 277 (inc.).

Ed. by H. D. Sharma and M. M. Patkar, Poona Ori. Series, 60. Poona, 1939. For an analysis
of the work, see Intro.; also H. D. Sharma, Kuppuswami Sastri Com. Vol. pp. 53-60; V.
Raghavan, Ind. Cult. D. R. Bhandarkar Vol. 1940, p. 164; for a comparison of contemporary
events recorded here and the data given in Bernier's travels, see Gode, Stud. in Ind. Lit.
Hist. II. pp. 370-73.

--Svayambhūbhaṭṭārakastotra. Nepal II. p. 237.

See also under Pratāpamalla.

successor of Vidyādhirāja Tīrtha; formerly Vāsudeva Śāstrin (died in 1340 A. D. according
to Bhr. p. 203; but in 1421 A. D. according to BNK. Sharma, Hist. of Dvai. Lit. I. p. 274).
His school mentioned in Smṛtyarthasāgara.

--C. Kṛdvṛtti. gr. Ani.

a member of the family of Brahman scholars in Skt. who served the kings of Kāmbhoja for several
generations; lived in 10th Cent. A. D.; master of grammar, polity and religion; also expounded
Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata.

See BEFEO. XXVIII. 60.

--Anupurāṇa and Śivabhārata assigned to same. Burnell 162b. TD. 4223-6. Trav. Uni. 4531
(inc.).

See NCC. I. Revised edn. p. 205a. [Page289-b]

Ed. with Marathi C., BISM. Poona (Śaka 1849).

For an attempt to identify him with Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī, see Nāgarī Pracāriṇī
Patrikā, 53. iii (1949) pp. 119-26; contra, ibid. 69. i-ii. pp. 190 ff.

jy.

--by Śrīpati Miśra. CPB. 737.

same as Lallā Dīkṣita (a. of Ānandamandirastotra).

See NCC. II. p. 110a; and under Lallā Dīkṣita.

a biography of poet Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa who flourished at Banaras during the latter half of the
19th Cent. by Devīprasāda. RASB. IV. 3113.

tentative title of a fragment ed. in Bib. Ind. by F. W. Thomas, of the
Subhāṣitaratnakośa of Vidyākara.

RASB. VII. 5439 (inc.).

Full text ed. D. D. Kosambi and V. V. Gokhale. HOS. 42. 1957.

alias Mahīpati Śarman.

--C. on Vidyāviduṣī. Assam Kāvyas 49.

farce by a Kālidāsa.

Ptd. in Telugu script, Madras, 1883. See IO. Ptd. Bks. 1897, p. 27.

--Svapnādhyāya. Hall, Preface to Vāsavadattā p. 30.

of Benares; C. 1600-75 A. D.; well-known Sannyāsin-scholar and Hindu teacher of Benares;
interceded with Emperor Shah Jehan and got abolished the Jessia tax imposed [Page290-a] by the
Moghul rulers on Hindu pilgrims at Allahabad and other Tīrthas; got the title ‘Kavīndra’ from
Shah Jehan, as also money to be distributed to Pandits at Allahabad; was presented with addresses
by Pandits (see above Kavīndracandrodaya) and with the title ‘Sarva-vidyā-nidhāna’.

Belonged to Ṛgveda, Āśval. śākhā and was a native of the banks of Godāvarī.

Ref. to by Bernier in his Travels in Moghul India. Was also a bibliophile and built up a mss.
library in Benares of which Kṛṣṇa, the compiler of Kavīndracandrodaya, was librarian;
mss. of this collection bearing the superscription of his name are now scattered among several
libraries in India and abroad. See also below Kavīndrācāryasūcīpatra, and P. K. Gode's
‘Notes on Some evidence about the location of the Mss. Lib. of K. at Benares in A. D. 1665’, Intro.
to Bikaner edn. of Jagadvijayacchandas, 1945, pp. xlvii-lvii.

Wrote in Sanskrit and Hindi; but some of the Skt. works in his name in Catalogues are only mss.
of his collection bearing his name. All the minor works he wrote are in the collection
Kavīndrakalpadruma (see above).

See H. P. Sastri, Ind. Ant. Vol. 41 (1912), pp. 11-2. On K. and Bernier and the latter's
ref.s to K.'s learning, see P. K. Gode, Studies in Ind. Lit. Hist. II. pp. 364-79; also
Bibl. of Mughal India, App. III. p. 160 (Kavicandra Kṛṣṇa); on his Jagadvijayacchandas,
see Adyar Library Bulletin IV. p. 58; VII. pp. 33-37 and Intro. to the edn. noted below. On
him, his real name as Kṛṣṇa, his [Page290-b] titles, native place, his achievements, his elders
and contemporary poets, his librarian and his works, see V. Raghavan, Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī,
Ind. Culture, D. R. Bhandarkar Vol. 1940, pp. 159-165. See also Nāgarī Pracāriṇī
Patrikā, Vol. 52, pp. 73-81. For an attempt to identify him with Kavīndra Paramānanda, a. of
Anupurāṇa and Śivabhārata on Śivāji, see, G. D. Tamaskar, Nāgarī Pracāriṇī
Patrikā, Vol. 53. pp. 119-26.

--Yogabhāskara (?) Oudh XIX. 112.

In Hindi:

--Kavīndrakalpalatikā. See above.

--Jñānasāra, Hindi version of the Yogavāsiṣṭhasāra of Mahīdhara. This was done into
Persian under the title Rāfi-ul-khilāf by Sita Rama Kayastha. See Tarachand, J. of the G. Jha
Res. Inst. II. i. pp. 7-12.

The Śatapathabrāhmaṇavyākhyā in his name is his ms. of Harisvāmin's C.; similarly the
Tantravārttika and Haṁsadūta in his name are only his mss. of those works.

The following are found in his name in catalogues:

--Ṛgvedavyākhyā. RASB. II. 143 (fr.).

--Kavīndrakalpadruma.

--Jagadvijayacchandas. bṛhat. Bikaner 3024. PUL. II. p. 266.

--Jagadvijayacchandas. laghu. Bikaner 3024. PUL. II. p. 266.

Both ed. by C. Kunhan Raja, Gaṅgā Ori. Ser. 2, Bikaner, 1945.

--Daśakumāracaritavyākhyā-Padacandrikā. BORI. D. XIII. iii. 1219-21. L. 3041. MD. 12398.
[Page291-a]

For an analysis of a BORI. ms. of this, see Poona Ori. IV. iii. pp. 134-5.

--Mīmāṁsāsarvasva (?). Sūcīpattra 52.

PUL. II. p. 276.

A list of mss. and works relating to different branches of Skt. lit., which existed in
Kavīndrācārya's library in Benares; mss. of this collection scattered now in different libraries
in India and abroad bear the superscript ‘Sarvavidyānidhāna-kavīndrācāryasarasvatīnām
etc.’

Ptd. GOS. XVII. 1921.

an alias of Anantayajvan, a. of Pitṛmedhasūtravivaraṇa (Gautamīya).

See NCC. I. Revised edn. p. 178a.

IM. 7865 W.

poet. Śp. 3975. Smv. pp. 323. 324 (a. noted also as Viśveśvara). See
Smv. Index, p. 48 fn. Sūktisundara of Sundaradeva (see Poona Ori. I. ii. p. 53).