Govinda Diksita

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Thank you, Peter.  That's very useful.  That's the bit of the journal 
that's missing in the Cambridge Univ. Library set.  So there's only a very 
brief mention there, and this would seem not to be what Raghavan is 
referring to, which sounds longer.  I'll see if I can get hold of the 
Sahityaratnakara.

Many thanks again,
Dominik


On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Peter Wyzlic wrote:

> Am Dienstag den, 13. September 2005, um 21:58, schrieb Dominik Wujastyk:
>
>> In Raghavan's NCC, vol 6, p.198, the entry on Govinda Diksita makes 
>> reference to an article as follows
>>
>>   For a traditional account of his life see IHQ. II.220-41.
>> 
>> That's the Indian Historical Quarterly.  But I've looked at IHQ 2, and 
>> there's nothing there about Gov. Dik.  There *is* something about him in 
>> vol.6, according to the global index, but - drat - those pages are missing 
>> from the Cambridge UL copy of IHQ that I have been working with today. But 
>> the page numbers given for the vol.6 reference are not 220--41,
>>  and somehow I don't think it's the same reference.
>> 
>> Does anyone know the correct reference for an article giving a trad. 
>> account of Govinda Diksita's life?  This Govinda is the one who was a 
>> minister at Vijayanagara, then to the Nayak court at Tanjore, in the 
>> sixteenth and early seventeeth centuries.  He wrote a work on music, the 
>> Sangitasudha.
>
> Just for the record: IHQ vol. 4, pp. 563-567 contains an article by C. S. 
> Srinivasachari: "Progress in South Indian epigraphy". On pp. 566-567 the 
> author shortly deals with the Tanjore Nayakas and mentions: "Details of his 
> [Govindadiksita's] life are given in the Sahityaratnakara by his son ...]". 
> This refers to Yajnanarayana(diksita): Sahityaratnakara.
>
> Peter Wyzlic
>