The Dates of Nārāyāna Dīksita and Other Commentators of the Vāsavadattā of Subandhu

The fear of Mlecohas or Mohammedans referred to in the above expression did not.ho( continuer! On next paye) I Annals B. 0. R."3o Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 11 The parentage of our author as disclosed by the foregoing extracts may be represented as follows :-- hailing from W4.trfaw ( married Son wiTizior n r the author of MiTErgini thl:f on iirft's wrtiritrffi. [...] LV-LXII mentions no work of the name " 371 ""I 34 Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Res arch Institute In the above list of references the mention of WaV' and his aTO3)i “14K of about 1150 A. D. enables us to fix A. D. 1200 as the earlier limit to Nftrayapa's commentary. [...] 4020 ). The correct name of the author is not Vikramrddhi Kavi but f414*-s1 as stated in a verse at the beginning (IiAmilier imffisivgw74-ir ). In the extract quoted in the Tanjore Catalogue ( p. 3019 ) there are some quotations from the lexicon r ( c. 950 A. D. ). We may therefore presume that this commentary is later than about 1100 A. D. Perhaps an analysis of the only Ms of the work in t [...] Scholars interested in the study of the Viiavadatla may do well to study many of those comentaries which though of later times are likely to throw unepected light on some of the obscure words in the text of the Vasa adatla which is full of words with double meanings and hence has taxed the heads of many commentators as would be seen from the numerous commentaries mentioned in this paper. [...] I trust therefore that my present survey of the prbable chronology of some of these commentaries and indication of the Ms.