Vidyānandana

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Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद) refers to one of the works ascribed to King Bhoja, according to Bisheshwar Nath Reu.—King Bhoja of Dhārā, one of the greatest rulers of India, ruled from 1018 to 1060 A.D. He was great in the art of Government and war, but still greater in the art of peace.

He had earned immortal fame as a great patron of poets and men of letters and a mass of legends has grown about his name.

He is reported to be the author of more than three dozen works i.e., Vidyāvinoda.

[...] Śrī Viśveśvara Nātha Reu has laboured very hard in his treatise on ‘Rājā Bhoja’ (publsihed by Hindustani Academy) in collecting all the available material on the subject to give an account of the life and works of Bhoja.

He has given a list of the following thirty-four books ascribed to Rājā Bhoja of [[Dhārā [i.e., Vidyāvinoda]

1) Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—kāvya, by Bhojarāja. B. 2, 106. Compare Viśrāntavidyāvinoda.

2) Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद):—dharma Quoted in Nirṇayasindhu.

3) Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद):—a title of Nārāyaṇa, son of Bāṇeśvara.

4) Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद):—poet. Mentioned in Bhojaprabandha Oxf. 150^b.

5) Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद):—Devīmāhātmyaṭīkā.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary 1) Vidyāvinoda (विद्याविनोद):—[=vidyā-vinoda [from vidyā > vid] m. (also dācārya) Name of various scholars, [Catalogue(s) etc.]