Raghupa?cika Of Vallabhadeva Being the Earliest Commentary on the Raghuva?sa of Kalidasa

For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem “Lineage of the Raghus” (Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit literature. Thousands of manuscripts transmit it, and dozens of pre-modern commentaries expound the text.
This is the second volume (out of three) of the earliest surviving commentary, that of the tenth-century Kashmirian Vallabhadeva. The text that he had before him of Kālidāsa’s poems differs in many places from that printed in other editions, which generally follow the readings of the commentator Mallinātha, who wrote four centuries later.
Notes discuss the text and report the readings of three other hitherto unpublished commentaries that predate Mallinātha, namely those of Śrīnātha, Vaidyaśrīgarbha and Dakṣiṇāvartanātha.

Csaba Dezső (DPhil. Oxon., 2004) Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Indian Studies at that university. He has published critical editions, translations, and articles on Classical Indian Literature.
Dominic Goodall (DPhil. Oxon., 1996) joined the École française d’Extrême-Orient in 2000 and has spent most of his career as head of its Pondicherry Centre. He has published editions of Śaiva texts, works of kāvya and of Sanskrit inscriptions from Khmer-speaking regions of Southeast Asia.
Harunaga Isaacson (Ph.D. Leiden, 1995) is a Sanskritist with research interests in tantric traditions (both Buddhist and non-Buddhist), philosophy (both non-Buddhist and Buddhist), classical Sanskrit literature, and Sanskrit inscriptions from Cambodia.
Csaba Kiss (DPhil. Oxon., 2009) is currently in Naples working in the ERC DHARMA project on a first edition of the Vṛṣasārasaṅgraha, a Nepalese work of the Śivadharma corpus. Past projects include work on tantric literature, in particular the Brahmayāmalatantra. Among his recent publications is The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā (Pondicherry 2021).