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Sharan Sanskrit poet of the 12th century AD, possibly
the same person as Saran Datta or Chirantana Saran, perhaps identical
with Saran Dev, author of the Durghatavrtti, a grammatical work
on anomalous literary uses. The poet jaydev
mentions him among his contemporaries and describes him as having become
famous because of his swiftness in difficult versification. Tradition
speaks of Saran along with Govardhan, Jaydev, Umapatidhar and Kaviraj
as the five gems of the court of laksmanasena.
No major work of Saran is extant, but he is quoted in the Saduktikarnamrta
of Shridhar Das, a governor under Laksmanasena and in the Padyavali
of Rupa Goswami. [Pratap Bandyopadhyay] |
