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Little is known of Bhāmaha's life: the last verse of the ''Kāvyālaṃkāra'' says that his father was called Rakrilagomin, but little more is known:<ref name="Kane">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLiCSTFOGnMC&q=Bhamaha&pg=PA78|title=History of Sanskrit Poetics|last=Kane|first=P. V.|pages=78–88|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=81-208-0274-8|year=1998|orig-year=1971}}</ref> | Little is known of Bhāmaha's life: the last verse of the ''Kāvyālaṃkāra'' says that his father was called Rakrilagomin, but little more is known:<ref name="Kane">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BLiCSTFOGnMC&q=Bhamaha&pg=PA78|title=History of Sanskrit Poetics|last=Kane|first=P. V.|pages=78–88|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=81-208-0274-8|year=1998|orig-year=1971}}</ref> | ||
<blockquote>Later Kashmiri writers often treat Bhāmaha as the founding father of Sanskrit poetics and, by the same token, make him stand for everything that is old school, a trend that must have begun with [[Udbhaṭa]] (c. 800) and his vast commentary on Bhāmaha’s work. This Kashmiri connection has led many to assume that Bhāmaha, too, hailed from the northern vale. But if this is the case, then, unlike many of his followers, whose patrons, positions, and, in some cases, salaries are referred to by Kalhaṇa, Bhāmaha does not receive any mention in the famous chronicle of Kashmir’s courts, the [[Rajatarangini|Rājataraṅgiṇī]] (River of Kings).<ref>Yigal Bronner, 'A Question of Priority: Revisiting the Bhamaha-Daṇḍin Debate', ''The Journal of Indian Philosophy'', 40 (2012), 67–118 (p. 79). DOI 10.1007/s10781-011-9128-x</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Later Kashmiri writers often treat Bhāmaha as the founding father of Sanskrit poetics and, by the same token, make him stand for everything that is old school, a trend that must have begun with [[Udbhaṭa]] (c. 800) and his vast commentary on Bhāmaha’s work. This Kashmiri connection has led many to assume that Bhāmaha, too, hailed from the northern vale. But if this is the case, then, unlike many of his followers, whose patrons, positions, and, in some cases, salaries are referred to by Kalhaṇa, Bhāmaha does not receive any mention in the famous chronicle of Kashmir’s courts, the [[Rajatarangini|Rājataraṅgiṇī]] (River of Kings).<ref name="Yigal Bronner 2012 p. 79">Yigal Bronner, 'A Question of Priority: Revisiting the Bhamaha-Daṇḍin Debate', ''The Journal of Indian Philosophy'', 40 (2012), 67–118 (p. 79). DOI 10.1007/s10781-011-9128-x</ref></blockquote> | ||
Bhāmaha is rather seldom mentioned as a poet by later commentators, but seems to have had a significant reputation as a grammarian, being cited by the eighth-century [[Śāntarakṣita]]. The Bhāmaha who composed the ''Kāvyālaṃkāra'' might also be the same person as the one who composed a commentary on [[Vararuchi|Vararuci’s]] Prākṛtaprakāáa, a Prakrit grammar, and a few other works have also been tentatively attributed to him.<ref>Yigal Bronner, 'A Question of Priority: Revisiting the Bhamaha-Daṇḍin Debate', ''The Journal of Indian Philosophy'', 40 (2012), 67–118 (pp. 79–80). DOI 10.1007/s10781-011-9128-x</ref> | Bhāmaha is rather seldom mentioned as a poet by later commentators, but seems to have had a significant reputation as a grammarian, being cited by the eighth-century [[Śāntarakṣita]]. The Bhāmaha who composed the ''Kāvyālaṃkāra'' might also be the same person as the one who composed a commentary on [[Vararuchi|Vararuci’s]] Prākṛtaprakāáa, a Prakrit grammar, and a few other works have also been tentatively attributed to him.<ref>Yigal Bronner, 'A Question of Priority: Revisiting the Bhamaha-Daṇḍin Debate', ''The Journal of Indian Philosophy'', 40 (2012), 67–118 (pp. 79–80). DOI 10.1007/s10781-011-9128-x</ref> | ||
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===Commentaries=== | ===Commentaries=== | ||
The only known pre-modern commentary on ''Kavyalankara'' is the 'learned and important'<ref | The only known pre-modern commentary on ''Kavyalankara'' is the 'learned and important'<ref name="Yigal Bronner 2012 p. 79"/> ''Bhamahavivarana'' or ''Bhamahavritti'' by Udbhaṭa.<ref name="Kane"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UhEvnIZjT4C&q=Udbhata+Bhamaha+Kavyalankara&pg=PA22|title=Indian Poetics|last=Sreekantaiya|first= T. N.|page=22|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|year=2001|location=New Delhi|isbn=81-260-0807-5}}</ref> However, only a few fragments of this survive.<ref>Gnoli, R. (1962). Udbhaṭ’s commentary on the ‘‘Kāvyālaṃkāra’’ of Bhāmaha. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.</ref> | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||