Sunday, 22 January 2023

NITI-DVISHASHTIKA OF THE KING SUNDARA PANDYA




नीतिद्विषष्टिका The earliest work of didactic poetry about which some definite information is available in the नीतिद्विषष्टिका of 116 verses in the Arya meter composed by सुन्दरपाण्ड्य: of Madurai.  जनाश्रय:of 600 A.D. quotes from this work in his छन्दोविचिति: and the great मीमांसकः कुमारिलभट्टः quotes from other lost works of सुन्दर पाण्ड्यः. Therefore his date can be fixed about 500 A.D.

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