[§ 32 Works of Nagesa and Payagunda 32. The works of Nägesa and of Vaidyanatha Payagunda.---- Nagesa or Nagojibhatta was a very prolific writer. Be- sides fourteen great works on Dharma, one on Yoga, three on Alankara, and about a dozen on Vyakaraṇa-śāstra, he has been credited with the authorship of extensive commentaries on Välmiki-Ramayana and Adhyatma- Rāmāyaṇa as also on Saptašati, Gitagovinda, Sudhälahari, and other works. We are here concerned with his gram- matical treatises, and prominent amongst these is the Udyota on Kaiyyata's Mahabhashya-pradipa; Paribhā- shendusekhara, a collection of Paribhashas handed down in connection with Panini's grammar and followed by a concise explanatory commentary on them called the Sab- | dendusekhara (in two editions a major and a minor) a commentary on the Siddhanta-kaumudi and intended as a companion to the Manorama; Sabdaratna, a commentary on the Praulha-Manorama, ascribed by him honoris causa to his teacher Hari-dikshita; Vishami a commentary on Bhattoji's Šabda-kaustubha; and finally the Vaiyakaraṇa- siddhantamañjūshã (in three editions) on the philosophy of grammar. 49 The geneological tree given above exhibits Nāgoji- bhatta's spiritual descent from his illustrious predeces- sors; it also helps us roughly to determine his time. In addition we have a tradition current at Jeypur, and mentioned by the learned editor of the Kavyamālā in his introduction to Rasagañgādhara, which refers to an invita- tion for a horse sacrifice received in 1714 A. D. by Nagesabhatta from Savãi Jeysimha, ruler of Jeypur (1688 to 1728 A.D), an invitation which Nagesa courteously de- clined on the ground that he had taken kshetra-sannyāsa and could not, therefore, leave Benares to attend the ceremony. Regarding himself he informs us that he was a Mahratta Brahman surnamed Kale, the son of Siva- bhatta and Sati, a resident of Benares and a protegee of 7 [ Sk. Gr. ]
