Daṇḍin's Indebtedness to Subandhu

Subandhu's influence on Dandin does not appear as much as on Bana¹. By Dandin's time Bāna had probably eclipsed Subandhu's fame It is probably for this reason that Dandin who speaks very highly of Bāna in his Avanti sundar does not mention, along with other poets and works, Subandhu or his prose romance Vāsavadatta, already

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मान सिंह दण्डी पर सुबन्धु के प्रभाव को बाण के प्रभाव के सामने तौलते हैं। दण्डी 'अवन्तिसुन्दरी' में बाण की प्रशंसा करते और कादम्बरी-कथा का समावेश करते हैं, किन्तु सुबन्धु या 'वासवदत्ता' का नाम नहीं लेते; जिस सुबन्धु का उल्लेख है, वह बिन्दुसार के बन्दीगृह से मुक्त भिन्न लेखक है। Maan Singh weighs Subandhu's influence on Dandin against Bana's. Dandin praises Bana in the Avantisundari and takes over the Kadambari story, but never names Subandhu or the Vasavadatta; the Subandhu he does mention, freed from Bindusara's prison, is plainly a different writer.

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