Ishvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini Part 1 (KSTS 22)

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a Kashmiri by birth and a follower of Kashmir Shaivism1.

THE DATE OF THE COMMENTATOR

There seems to have been three of the name of Vallabha. The first is called Utprekshā-vallabha, i. e. Vallabha who made himself famous by making free use of a figure of speech called Utprekshā poetic fancy—poetic fancy. His Bhikshātana-kāvya Poem of the Wandering Beggar is available only in fragments. He belongs to an older generation of poets, such as Kālidāsa, Bāṇa etc. The second is Vallabhadeva, an anthologist (c. 1450 A. D.), the author

1. Cf. Colophon at the end of each Canto of the Maghakavya Poem by Magha, where he says that he is a son of Ananddeva. Also cf. Commentary on Devishataka One Hundred Verses to the Goddess of Anandvardhana by Kayyata, where we come across the following verse:

Born from Vallabhadeva or Chandraditya,
Kayyata wrote this commentary on the Devishataka.
original: "वल्लभदेवायतश्चन्द्रादित्याद्वाप्य जन्मेमाम्। कय्यटनामारचयद्विवृतिं देवीशतस्तोत्रे।।"

It may be noted that this Kayyata is quite different from the one who is the son of Jayyata and the writer of Pradipa The Lamp (commentary on Mahabhashya), (1300 A. D.)