Banabhatta biography of william

[Full title: Position of Harṣacarita Among the Gadyakāvyas in Sanskrit Literature]

Bāṇabhaṭṭa acquires the topmost position among all the prose-writers in Sanskritliterature due to his excellent poetic merits.

Although, Subandhu was predecessor of Bāṇa, the latter got a higher position than him for careful avoidance of all the faults of the former. But Bāṇa was greatly influenced by Subandhu, and therefore, he praises him in his Harṣacarita.^[1]Daṇḍin, however, had shown new style in the prose-kāvya by using simple elocution in his Daśakumāracarita.

But, he (Daṇḍin) too even couldn’t acquire Bāṇa’s standard, although he^[2] had flourished later than Bāṇa.

The date of Bāṇabhaṭṭa is very important for the chronology of Sanskrit writers. His date can easily be fixed from the autobiographical accounts given by himself in his famous kāvya in Harṣacarita.

In this ākhyāyikā, it is mentioned^[3] that he had been patronize