Subhūticandra

Subhūticandra (c. 1060–1140 CE) was an Indian Buddhist monk-scholar known as the author of the commentary Kavikāmadhenu (c. 1110–1130 CE) on the Amarakośa. He appears to have also written a grammatical text called Subantaratnākara.

Lata Mahesh Deokar states:

He was one of the teachers of Pa tshab Lo tsā ba Tshul khrims rgyal mtshan (d. after 1130), who had studied the Āryasaddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra with Subhūticandra at Vikramaśīla. According to Pa tshab Lo tsā ba, Subhūticandra was ‘a scholar of grammar, poetics, and “the modality of the Sanskrit language”, (legs par sbyar ba’i skad kyi lugs la mkhas pa), whereby the latter phrase may, but only may, be a clumsy way of designating lexicography’ (van der Kuijp 2009, 8). An analysis of the citations from Subhūticandra’s Kavikāmadhenu substantiates Pa tshab Lo tsā ba’s statement. Out of at least 228 texts from which Subhūticandra quotes, fifty-three are grammatical works, six are on poetics, and thirty-three lexicons.