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INTRODUCTION
The Author and his Work
The author of these fascinating love-lyrics in Sanskrit is
an enigma to oriental scholars. Even his name is given
variously as Amaru'. Amaraka 2, Amaruka, Amarūka,
Amraka and Amara. Ravicandra, the commentator of the
Eastern or Bengali recension, gives the name Amaru 3
while Arjunavarmadeva 4, Rudramadevakumāra5 and Vema-
bhūpāla name him Amaruka. It is obvious that the latter
is made out of the former.
There is a tradition recorded by Madhava in his Sankara-
digvijaya from which we learn the following:- Sankara-
carya, the celebrated commentator of the Sariraka-sūtras, in
the course of his victorious march through the country, went
to Benaras and entered into a philosophical disputation
with Mandanamiśra, the great Mimāṁmsã scholar. Sankara
was almost on the point of defeating him, when the latter's
wife came to the help of her husband and challenged
Sankarācārya to a debate and when she found the opponent
superior to her in every branch of knowledge, she thought
1. Aufrecht, Z. D. M. G. XXVII. 7.
2. Kṣemendra, Kavikaṇṭhābharaṇa II.,
3 कुरुतेऽमरुशतटीकां ज्ञानानन्दः कलाधरो विज्ञ: । Introductory
verse 2.
4. अमरुककवित्वडमरुकनादेन विनिनुता न संचरति । शृङ्गारभणिति-
रन्या धन्यानां श्रवणयुगलेषु ॥ and प्रज्ञानवानमरुकस्य कवेः प्रसारश्लोकाञ्छतं
1. Intro. verses of the Rasikasañjivanī.
5. अमरुकशतमिदमित्थं स्वबुद्धिविभवात् रसाब्धितत्त्वज्ञः । रुद्रमदेव-
कुमारो विदग्धचूडामणिर्व्यवृणोत् 1 Colophon to his commentary.
6. अमरुककविना रचितां शृङ्गाररसात्मिकां शतश्लोकीम् etc. In-
troductory verses to शृङ्गारदीपिका.
The Author and his Work
The author of these fascinating love-lyrics in Sanskrit is
an enigma to oriental scholars. Even his name is given
variously as Amaru'. Amaraka 2, Amaruka, Amarūka,
Amraka and Amara. Ravicandra, the commentator of the
Eastern or Bengali recension, gives the name Amaru 3
while Arjunavarmadeva 4, Rudramadevakumāra5 and Vema-
bhūpāla name him Amaruka. It is obvious that the latter
is made out of the former.
There is a tradition recorded by Madhava in his Sankara-
digvijaya from which we learn the following:- Sankara-
carya, the celebrated commentator of the Sariraka-sūtras, in
the course of his victorious march through the country, went
to Benaras and entered into a philosophical disputation
with Mandanamiśra, the great Mimāṁmsã scholar. Sankara
was almost on the point of defeating him, when the latter's
wife came to the help of her husband and challenged
Sankarācārya to a debate and when she found the opponent
superior to her in every branch of knowledge, she thought
1. Aufrecht, Z. D. M. G. XXVII. 7.
2. Kṣemendra, Kavikaṇṭhābharaṇa II.,
3 कुरुतेऽमरुशतटीकां ज्ञानानन्दः कलाधरो विज्ञ: । Introductory
verse 2.
4. अमरुककवित्वडमरुकनादेन विनिनुता न संचरति । शृङ्गारभणिति-
रन्या धन्यानां श्रवणयुगलेषु ॥ and प्रज्ञानवानमरुकस्य कवेः प्रसारश्लोकाञ्छतं
1. Intro. verses of the Rasikasañjivanī.
5. अमरुकशतमिदमित्थं स्वबुद्धिविभवात् रसाब्धितत्त्वज्ञः । रुद्रमदेव-
कुमारो विदग्धचूडामणिर्व्यवृणोत् 1 Colophon to his commentary.
6. अमरुककविना रचितां शृङ्गाररसात्मिकां शतश्लोकीम् etc. In-
troductory verses to शृङ्गारदीपिका.