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COMMENTARIES AND DIGESTS.
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alleged restoration of Medhatithi’s Commentary. Maclana- Lecture
pala’§ date is referred to the 14th century by Colebrooke, L
to the 15th century by Dr. Burnell, and to the 12th cen-
tury by Rajkumar Sarvadhikari. The last of these three
dates cannot be correct, as Vigvegyara mentions among his
sources the Smritichandrika and Hemadri’s Digest, both of
which works were composed in the 13th century in South
India, far away from the native country of Vigvegvara.
Besides, the writings of Vigvegvara, as far as my present
researches go, are not distinctly alluded to by any earlier
writer than by Raghunandana, who, as mentioned before,
lived in the early part of the IGth century.1 2
One out of the many modern writers who have ijaade Nanda-
use of the writings of Vigvegvara is Nandapandita, the son of Par4lta-
Ramapandita, a Dharmadhikari of Benares. His numerous
productions include a Commentary on the Mitakshara called
Pramitakshara or Pratitakshara, A fragment of this
work, consisting of about two-thirds of the first Adhyaya,
I have seen in the private library of the learned and able
Librarian of the Sanskrit College in Benares, Pandit Duncli-
raj Dharmadhikari, who is ninth in descent from Nanda-
pandita. Very likely this work was never finished.
The Balambhatta-tika or Lakshmi-vyakhy ana or Mita- Balam-
ksliara-tika Balambhatti was either actually composed by a bhatta.
lady, called LakshmidevI, whose family name was Paya-
gunde, or was attributed to her by courtesy. In the former
case, the name of Balambhatta would have to be taken for
her nom de plume? In the latter case it might be identified
with the name of her son Balakrishna.3 Professor Aufrecht
thinks this work to have been composed in the latter half
of the 18th century.4 It cannot certainly be much older
than this, as it contains references to the Viramitrodaya,
Nirnayasindhu, VaijayantI and other works composed in
the first half of the 17th century. The terminus ad quern
is furnished by a good Benares MS. written in A.D. 1782.
1 Several writers, in discussing the question of Madanapiila’s date, have
made indiscriminate use of all references anjwvhere found to a work
called Parijata. This title is, however, common to several works, and it
will be shown in its place that, e.g., a quotation from the Parijata in the
Viramitrodaya cannot be traced to the Madana-parijata.
2 West & Buhler, p. 17.
3 This, and not Nalakrishna as in the MSS. consulted by Professor
Aufrecht and'Rajkumar Sarvadhikari (Lectures 406), is the proper spell-
ing of this name. See too F. E. Hall’s Index, p. 175.
4 Catalogue of the Bodleian Library, p. 262.
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alleged restoration of Medhatithi’s Commentary. Maclana- Lecture
pala’§ date is referred to the 14th century by Colebrooke, L
to the 15th century by Dr. Burnell, and to the 12th cen-
tury by Rajkumar Sarvadhikari. The last of these three
dates cannot be correct, as Vigvegyara mentions among his
sources the Smritichandrika and Hemadri’s Digest, both of
which works were composed in the 13th century in South
India, far away from the native country of Vigvegvara.
Besides, the writings of Vigvegvara, as far as my present
researches go, are not distinctly alluded to by any earlier
writer than by Raghunandana, who, as mentioned before,
lived in the early part of the IGth century.1 2
One out of the many modern writers who have ijaade Nanda-
use of the writings of Vigvegvara is Nandapandita, the son of Par4lta-
Ramapandita, a Dharmadhikari of Benares. His numerous
productions include a Commentary on the Mitakshara called
Pramitakshara or Pratitakshara, A fragment of this
work, consisting of about two-thirds of the first Adhyaya,
I have seen in the private library of the learned and able
Librarian of the Sanskrit College in Benares, Pandit Duncli-
raj Dharmadhikari, who is ninth in descent from Nanda-
pandita. Very likely this work was never finished.
The Balambhatta-tika or Lakshmi-vyakhy ana or Mita- Balam-
ksliara-tika Balambhatti was either actually composed by a bhatta.
lady, called LakshmidevI, whose family name was Paya-
gunde, or was attributed to her by courtesy. In the former
case, the name of Balambhatta would have to be taken for
her nom de plume? In the latter case it might be identified
with the name of her son Balakrishna.3 Professor Aufrecht
thinks this work to have been composed in the latter half
of the 18th century.4 It cannot certainly be much older
than this, as it contains references to the Viramitrodaya,
Nirnayasindhu, VaijayantI and other works composed in
the first half of the 17th century. The terminus ad quern
is furnished by a good Benares MS. written in A.D. 1782.
1 Several writers, in discussing the question of Madanapiila’s date, have
made indiscriminate use of all references anjwvhere found to a work
called Parijata. This title is, however, common to several works, and it
will be shown in its place that, e.g., a quotation from the Parijata in the
Viramitrodaya cannot be traced to the Madana-parijata.
2 West & Buhler, p. 17.
3 This, and not Nalakrishna as in the MSS. consulted by Professor
Aufrecht and'Rajkumar Sarvadhikari (Lectures 406), is the proper spell-
ing of this name. See too F. E. Hall’s Index, p. 175.
4 Catalogue of the Bodleian Library, p. 262.