Halayudha's Abhidhanaratnamala : A Sanskrit vocabulary [of synonyms] / edited with a Sanskrit-English glossart by Th. Aufrecht.

  • Halāyudha Bhaṭṭa (Lexicographer)
Date:
1861
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Credit: Halayudha's Abhidhanaratnamala : A Sanskrit vocabulary [of synonyms] / edited with a Sanskrit-English glossart by Th. Aufrecht. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cliaiuliis. lie may, ijerliaps, be identified witli the writer of the Koslia; chiefly on account of the many artificial metres which he uses, and which no other lexicograplier has taken the liberty of employing for such a dry subject as a string of synonyms. The editor has, however, discovered . no allusion to the Kosha in the only copy of the Mri- tasamjivini at his command. Nor do the four names of Amaradatta, Yararuci, Bhaguri, and Vopalita, to whose works the author acknowledges himself indebted in the introductory verses to the Kosha, afford any clue to his own age. In the absence of direct evidence, we are, therefore, compelled to be contented with the secondary testimony of other writers. The mention of Halayudha by Ujjvaladatta, Mallinatha, and the Medinikara, is suf¬ ficient proof that he lived before the thirteenth century. Malliinitha in his various commentaries cites Halayudha far more frocpiently than the Abhidhanacintamani; but from this fact no inference can be drawn as to the greater anti(piity of Halayudha, for the orthodox scho¬ liast might have preferred a coreligionist to a Jain infidel. Halayudha is quoted besides, by Katavema on the Qa- kuntala, Jayamangala on the Bhaltikavya, Narahari in his Cudamani, Narayana on the Uttararamacarita, Pad- manabhadatta on the Bhuvane^varistotra, Bharatasena - on the Bhattikavya, Bhanujidikshita on Amara, Rangana- tha on the Vikramorva^i, Rayamuknta in his commentary on the Amarakosha, Qivadatta in the Civakosha, and a number of other scholiasts.