deemed reasonable, then Vidyādhara's time falls during the rule of Nrsimha Dēva I., and not of Nrsimha Dēva II.

Sahityadarpaņa:

date and place.

its

Before concluding this article I may point out that I am not satisfied with the time at, and the locality in which, the Sahitya darpana is said to have been composed. Dr. Weber following Pandit Jaganmohan Çarman in the preface to his edition of Canda-kançika, said that "the Sahitya-darpana was only composed towards the middle of the 15th century in East Bengal on the banks of the Brahmaputra” [Hist. Ind. Lit., p. 231, note 244]. Prof. Macdonell evidently adopts this view [Sans. Lit., App. p. 434].

How far this conclusion is based on facts, and how far on mere traditions I do not know. But the Sahitya-darpana itself does not support it. From the verse and comments quoted above, it is clear that Candraçēkhara, father of Viçvanātha, was a contemporary of a Bhanu Deva; and if of Bhanu Deva I., then, Viçvanātha lived during the rule of his son, Nisimha Dēva II. [A.D. 1279-1306], or at the latest during the rule of his grandson Bhānu Deva II. [A.D. 1306-1328]. In the vrtti to Kārikā 266, a Mahomedan king, Allāpadīna, is named, which may refer to the Delhi Sultan, 'Ala-ud-din Mas'ud Shah [A.D. 12411246], or to the later and greater king, 'Ala-ud-din Muhammad Shah [A.D. 1295-1315]. One stanza in praise of a king Nrsimha is quoted in the vrtti to kār. 671; but it is not to be found in the Ēkāvali. The other historical allusions are Suratrāna, or Sultan [vr. to kār. 686.], Gaud-endra [vur. to kār. 17], and Tri-Kalinga-bhūmi-tilaka [vr. to kār. 258].

From the references above quoted with others to Kalinga [vr. to kār. 13, 15, and 17], to Rāghavānanda [vr. to kār. 3 and 120], and to Mahima Bhatta's vyakti-vivēka [vr. to kār. 2 and 257], Viçvanātha would seem to be an author not of East Bengal, but of Orissa; while his time would be at least not later than the beginning of the 14th century A.D.

Viçvanātha evidently came of a learned family. His great-greatgrandfather, Nārāyana, [ur. to kar. 33], and his grandfather's younger brother Candidāsa [vr. to kār. 266, and 60], are described as leading scholars. His father, Candraçēkhara, was a minister and a scholar, and has been referred to in nine places, while his poem Puspa-mālā and Prākṛta work Bhās-ārnava have been specially mentioned. Viçvanātha quotes frequently from his own works (56 times as mama), and mentions or quotes from, as his own works, Kuvalayāçva-caritam, a Prākṛta poem (2 times), Candrakalā, a nātikā (7 times), Prabhāvati-pariņayam, a drama (10 times), Praçasti-ratnavālī, a work in 16 bhāsās (1 time), and Rāghavavilāsa, a Mahākāvya (2 times).

In the-Sahitya-darpana I have been unable to find out any quotation from or any mention of the Ēkāvali, a fact which may somewhat go in favour of Ekavali's later date. Can Cōraganga's son Umavallabha be connected in any way with the Umāvallabha of Candraçēkhara's stanza? Mahima Bhatta is quoted in Alaykārā-sarvasva as vyakti-vivēka-kāra, and is there quoted as an authority; while Alaņkārasarvasva-kāra is quoted in the Ekāvali as an authority. A fairly long time should therefore be allowed between Mahima Bhatta and Vidyādhara, a fact which lends some support to the identification of Candraçēkhara's Umāvallabha, Cōraganga's son.

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[As the transliteration of Sanskrit words in this Volume is not uniform, the
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rukhsiyar, 61.

Bagchi, see Rudra and Sadhu.

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, Turani and Irani sections of,

Muhammad Amin Khan I'timad-nd-daulah, 54.

Sultan of Jaunpur, Muhammad Ja'far, Sayyid, of Narnol,