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{{short description|Sanskrit scholar and writer}}
'''Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa Mṛgarājalakśman''', also known as Nishānārāyana, belonged to the ''Pancharatra'' Rarhi branch of ''Sandilya'' family of [[Brahmins]]. He was a [[Sanskrit]] scholar and writer who lived before 800 A.D. for he is cited by Vāmana (iv.3.28) in about 800 A.D. and by [[Anandavardhana|Ānandavardhana]] who refers to him more than once. He is believed to have been summoned from Kanyakubja ([[Kannauj]]) to [[Bengal]] by King [[Adi Sura|Ādisūra]], who ruled before the [[Pala Empire|Pala dynasty]] came to power in the middle of the eighth century, and who in 671 A.D. was a contemporary of [[Later Gupta dynasty|Ādityasena]], son of Madhavagupta, who ruled Kanyakubja.

Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, who is believed to have converted to [[Buddhism]], was a disciple of [[Dharmakirti]] with whom he co-authored ''Rupavatara''. [[Daṇḍin|Dandin]] in his ''Avantisundarikatha'' refers to Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa as author of three books but who is more widely known as the author of ''Venisamhara'' that dramatizes in six Acts some incidents from the [[Mahabharata]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Datta|first=Amaresh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&q=Bhattanarayana+Venisamhara&pg=PA477|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|date=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|language=en}}</ref> The construction of this drama may be bad but characterization is vigorous; many violent situations are described in long narrative digressions in poetic but undramatic style, yet there are graces of poetry, power of crude and furious descriptions, of impressive sonorous diction, of vivid depiction of detached scenes and situations, and of vigorous characterization. The [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore family]] and the [[Nadia Raj|Nadia Raj family]] claims their descent from Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Datta|first=Amaresh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&q=Tagore+Bhattanarayana+&pg=PA477|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|date=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Murphy|first=Anne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWysAgAAQBAJ&q=Nadia+Raj+Bhatta+Narayan&pg=PA182|title=Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia|date=2012-03-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-70729-2|language=en}}</ref>

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