Dear Matthew, 

I confirm the importance of the (grammatical) Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa in the tradition of Kerala, as shown by its influence on Melputtūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa's Prakriyāsarcasva. See the recent work by P. Visalakshy, The influence of Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa on Prakriyāsarvasva, Thiruvananthapuram : International School of Dravidian Linguistics, 2024. ISBN 9788196007591 
 The influence of Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa on Prakriyāsarvasva _.jpeg
About Daṇḍanātha's Commentary published in the TSS (uncomplete)* ed. (the vol. V = TSS no. 182 with the adh. 7-8 never appeared: remains to be done!), it could be contemporary with the text of the sūtras (11th c.) according to Robert Birwé, "Nārāyaṇa Daṇḍanātha's Commentary on Rules III.2, 106-121 of Bhoja's Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa", Journal of the American Oriental Society 84 (1964): 150-62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/597101 

The whole text of the  sūtras has been ed. by T. R. Chintamani in the Madras Un. Sanskr. Ser. 11, 1937 (with Kunhan Raja's preface; index < p. 289)

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284132

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52186

See also by the same, The Uṇādisūtras of Bhoja with the Vṛtti of Nārāyaṇa Daṇḍanātha, Madras University Sanskrit Series no. 7, part 3, 1934 (= The Uṇādisūtras in Various Recensions, part VI).

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.496423

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.368313

And as you provided us with, for the adh. 8 only (Vedic grammar) : Bhojadeva-viracitaṃ sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa-vaidikavyākaraṇam | aṣṭamo 'dhyāyāḥ | prathama-dvitīyapādau (vaidikīprakriyā) | tṛtīya-caturthapādau (svaraprakriyā), New Delhi : Rāṣṭrīya Vedavidyā Pratiṣṭhāna, 1992

https://archive.org/details/SaraswatiKanthabharanaVedicVyakaranaOfBhojaDevaDr.NaryanMKansara


Best wishes,

Christophe

(*) vol. I : https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.407040

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.313457

II : https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.407042

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.313459

III : https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.313458

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.407041

IV : https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.313401

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.406984

I = adh. 1, II = adh. 2, III = adh. 3-4, IV = adh. 5-6

Le 19 mai 2026 à 10:54, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

PS I have now found Sambasiva Shastri's 3 volume edition of the entire Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa grammar. The learned editor explicitly affirms that the same Bhoja who wrote it was the author of the work on poetics, but he also seems to suggest that the grammatical work is known only in the South, in particular in Kerala. This leads me to wonder if the same author is really behind both works. Has anyone looked into this?

Matthew T. Kapstein
Professor emeritus
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

Associate
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences






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On Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 at 10:33 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear friends,

The Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa is a well-known treatise on poetics by the 11th c. king and aesthete Bhojadeva. There also seems to be a Vedic grammar, bearing the same title, attributed to the same author. I would be grateful if someone might clarify for me the relationship between these works.  An edition of the Vedic grammar is available here:

thank you in advance,
Matthew

Matthew T. Kapstein
Professor emeritus
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

Associate
The University of Chicago Divinity School

Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences






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