Ishvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini Part 1 (KSTS 22)

carefully with the present commentary, it is clearly found that he has actually borrowed his explanations from Vallabha especially with regard to such points as could not be settled without erudite discussion. Vallabha's explanations are original, polished and full of learned citations and they stand unparalleled even when compared with those of Mallinātha or other commentators.

Vallabha's learning seems to have been very vast. From the perusal of his commentary we learn that he was well versed in Panini, Patanjali's Bhāshyam Great Commentary, rhetoric, sciences of Music and Drama, Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra Aphorisms on Desire, astronomy, politics, Smritis and Purāns ancient chronicles/mythologies. Like a modern scholar he has collated and compared his text while he was writing commentary on it (vide commentary shloka 58, canto VI.) His commentary on Ekākshara single-syllable and Dvyakshara two-syllable shlokas is quite different from that by the later authors. He was very well acquainted with different Prākrits Middle Indo-Aryan vernaculars such as Saurasenī, Māgadhī, Ardhamāgadhi etc.

Nothing much is known about him except that his father was Anandadeva, his son Chandrāditya and grandson Kayyaṭa. He was