Q. by Abhinavagupta in Tantrāloka. Vol. VIII. Āhnika 13, p. 184. Kas. Texts 47. p. 912.

Q. by Saccidānandanātha in his Lalitārcanacandrikā, BBRAS. 870.

jy. Vaṅgīya p. 265 (inc.).

genealogy. Varendra 1352. Cf. Kulapañjikā.

Bharatpur I. 376.

poet. Q. in anthology Vidagdhajanavallabhā of Kashmirian Vallabhadeva, son of Malhāṇadeva (pp.
10, 153. Travancore ms.) (The verses rundhAnaH etc., asyA mukhenAyataº etc. not in
Subhadrāº or Tapatīº). See V. Raghavan, J. of Kerala Uni. Ori. Mss. Lib. (Silver Jubilee Vol.)
XII. i-ii. 1963, pp. 141, 151.

On the problem of the identity of the various Kulaśekharas of Kerala and their dates see
Contribution of Kerala to Skt. Lit. pp. 1-30; and also K. Rama Pisharoti, IHQ. VII. pp.
319-30.

Tamil Vaiṣṇavasaint of South India of the 1st half of the 9th Cent. described as a Cera King;
styles himself as Lord of Pāṇḍya, Koṅgu and Cola [Page240-b] regions and refers to his killing a
Pallava king probably Dantivarman; a. of Perumāl Tirumoli, part of the Tamil vaiṣ. canonical
hymns. Ref. to in Intro. to Bhārgava Upapurāṇa, IO. 6745; in Guruparamparāstotra, MD. 18297; in
Prapannāmṛta by Anantacārya, ch. 86.

See MER. 1892. para 10; Gopinatha Rao, Hist. of the Śri Vaiṣṇavas, Uni. of Madras, p.
22; K. G. Sesha Iyer, IHQ. VII. pp. 644-54; A. S. Ramanatha Iyer, JRAS. 1929, p. 269.

probably identical with Kulaśekhara Ālvār. Last verse of his Mukundamālā (with several
variants) refer to Ravi and Lokavīra, a brahman and a Pāraśava as his friends; a verse from
Mukundamālā, Kṣīrasāgara etc., is echoed in Somadevasūri's Yaśastilakacampū (1959 A. D.);
see V. Raghavan, J. of G. Jhā Res. Inst. I. p. 472; Skm. (pp. 46-7) q. s 4 verses from
Mukundamālā; a verse from it q. in an ins. at Pagan in Burma, Epi. Ind. VII. pp. 197 ff.

--Mukundamālā. stotra in about 30 verses (no. of verses vary in mss.).

Ākrandamālā. Fl. 430, probably same as M. mālā.

Ptd. K. M. Gucch. 1 (work no. 3); Annamalai Uni. Series 1 (with C.) and in several stotra
collections.

See Contribution of Kerala to Skt. Lit. pp. 3-8.

I, II, Māravarman, Pāṇḍya Kings, probably patrons of a. of Sūktiratnahāra. See above p.
58a.

alias rAmavarman King of Kerala, with his capital at Mahodayapuram; patron of the Yamaka poet
Vāsudeva, a. of [Page241-a] Yudhiṣṭhiravijaya, Tripuradahana and Śaurikathodaya. Probably
identical with the royal dramatist Kulaśekhara Varman noted below. See Contribution of Kerala to
Skt. Lit. pp. 19-24.

C. 900 A. D. King of Kerala, with his capital at Mahodayapuram. According to a. of
Vyaṅgyavyākhyā C. on his Subhadrādhanañjaya, he wrote his dramas to be staged by actors; on his
special interests in enacting these dramas and probable promulgation of the tradition of Skt. drama
productions in Kerala see Intro. verses from the C. Vyaṅgyavyākhyā on his Subhadrāº reproduced
in the Intro. in TSS. edn. of the King's Tapatīsaṁvaraṇa and in GD. 1604. Probably identical
with patron of Vāsudeva.

--Āścaryamañjarī. Prose work, known only from ref.s. See NCC. II. p. 211a.

--Tapatīsaṁvaraṇa or Saṁvaraṇa. nāṭaka in 6 Acts on the story of Tapatī and Saṁvaraṇa.
Ref. to also in Subhadrādhanañjaya, Prologue. Ptd. TSS. 11.

--Śubhadrādhanañjaya or Dhanañjaya. nāṭaka in 5 Acts.

Ptd. TSS. 13.

King of Mahodayapura in Kerala; patron of Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa. jy. writer. See Ravivarman
Kulaśekhara.

title of Kings of Travancore.

unspecified work of Kulaśekhara. Cranganore 434.

Trav. Uni. 5790 Z-10.

teacher of Nṛsiṁhaprajña (a. of C. Nyāyatattvavivaraṇa on
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣyavārtika. TCD. 312).

name by which Svāti Tirunāl [Page241-b] Mahārāja of Travancore (1813-47 A. D.) is ref. to in
the an. Rāmavarmavijayacampū. See J. of the Kerala Uni. Ori. Mss. Library XVI. iv. 1967. pp.
106, 110.

by Dāmodaran Nambūtiri (1846-98 A. D.) of Karuttapāra in Kuṭamālūr. See Contribution of
Kerala to Skt. Lit. p. 261.

an eulogy on a king of Travancore. MD. 14711 (inc.).

Dāhilakṣmī XVIII. 34.

pr. MD. 15648.

tantra. mentioned by Yadunātha Śarman in his Āgamakalpalatā(vallī), BBRAS. 808. RASB. VIII.
A. 6219.

or navarAtrAdikulasaMhitA tantra. Hpr. I. 73.

tantra. Q. by Śaṅkara in Tārārahasyavṛtti, IO. 2603.