self says in the opening verses of रसगङ्गाधर. पेरुभट्ट had
studied बेदान्त under ज्ञानेन्द्रमिक्षु, न्याय 8nd बैशेषिक philosoph ies
under महेन्द्रपण्डित, पूर्वमीमांसा under देव ०., खण्डदेव्र in
Benares, and the महाभाष्य ग्रnder the grammarian शेपवीरेश्वर.
Small wonder, then, that under these propitious circum-
stances the boy Jagannātha was brought up with loving
cBre by his psrents cf. महालक्मीदयालालितः in the verse
d a etc.), and received such education from his father
as made him eventually the Tidaaa hahat he turned out
to be. Though Jagannātha received his educacion from
his father for the most part, yet, it seems, he had also sat
at the feet of the guru of his own father
Jagannātha must indeed have had a natural aptitude for
the many-sided scholastic education given to him for we
now know him not merely as a poet of a very high order,
but also as an accomplished rhetorician-as the author of
TH n n a horeover, his mastery over the Science of
Grammar is displayed in the ambitious commentary
मनोरमाङुचमदिनी hich was wribten by him by wey of ৪
refubation of मनोरमा of भट्टोजीदीक्षित.
The young Pandit, having been fully equipped
intellectually, left home and, as is evidenced by his own
writings, found his way into the Court of the Moghul
Emperors under whose warm patronage he passed his
youthful deys, ef. दिल्लीवल्लभपाणिपल्लवतले नीतं नवीनं वयः |
(ET. 84). So great seems to have been the impression
created by the learning and scholarship of this young
Pandit at the Imperial Court, that the Emperor Shah
Jehan conferred on him the title qiusaT (the Lord of
the Learned) which, the latter, from the very frequent
mention of it made by him in his works, appears to have
prized very much, cf. पण्डितराजस्य कवितायाः । Santa V. 44.
'The epithets पण्डितपति (Santa V. 39 ) and पणिडितनरेन्द्र ( which