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The author and his patron. The Daśarūpa, or Treatise on the Ten Forms of Drama, one of the most important works on Hindu dramaturgy, was composed by Dhanaṃjaya, son of Viṣṇu, in Mālava in the last quarter of the tenth century A. D., during the reign of Vākpatirāja II., or Muñja. The monarch’s name is given by Dhanaṃjaya in his concluding stanza (DR. 4. 91), where he states that his ‘intelligence was derived from discourse with the sovereign lord Muñja.’ This ruler, who had a great variety of names or epithets (Muñja, Vākpati, Utpalarāja, Amoghavarṣa, Pṛthivīvallabha, Śrīvallabha), was the seventh