The endeavours of Th. Aufrecht in his "Beitrage zur Kenntniss indicher Dichter" and F.W. Thomas in his Introduction to the Kavindravacana-samuccaya to give a list of poets quoted in different subhasita-samgraha-s have proved to be very useful for our closer acquaintance with the literature of ancient and medieval India. These poets would have been completely unknown to us if their names and verses had not been preserved in the Sanskrit ...
