Ishvara Pratyabhijna Vimarshini Part 1 (KSTS 22)

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well-known Kāvyas poetic works and Mahākāvyas great epic poems, such as Raghuvamsha, Kumārasambhava, Meghadūta, Kirātārjunīya, Naishadhacharita, and the Shishupāla-vadham. Commentaries on Sūrya-shataka One Hundred Verses to the Sun and Vakroktipanchāshikā Fifty Verses on Oblique Speech are also said to have been written by him. He wrote brief notes on Devīshataka, which his grandson Kayyaṭa seems to have amplified and later on changed into the form of a commentary. Besides, several anthologists have quoted shlokas verses under his name, which goes to prove the existence of some of his other literary compositions which are lost to us forever. The verses ascribed to him in the anthologies, being on various subjects, convince us of the fact of his high literary attainments and versatile genius¹. He also wrote a commentary on Rudraṭa's Kāvyālaṅkāra Ornamentation of Poetry, which he refers to either by the name of Rudraṭa-ṭīkā or Alaṅkāra-ṭīkā original: "एतन्मास्माभिः रुद्रटीकायां विचारितं, एतन्मास्माभिरलङ्कारटीकायां सुविचारितम्"².

1. See shlokas nos. 2, 150, 452, 1038, 3116, 977 etc. Subhāṣitāvali of Vallabhadeva Ed. Dr. P. Peterson and Durgadasa pp. 112.
2. Shlokas 21, Canto IV. Comm. Shloka 28, Canto VI Comm.