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Introduction
CCCXXIX the supplements belong, first of all, the Seshakhya Namamāla which purports to complete the Abhidhāna. chinātmaņi and which contains, particularly, extracts from Yadavaprakasa's Vaijayanti (p. 36). The three Nighanţus - according to the tradition Hemachandra wrote six of them - also belong to this period. The commentary with illustrative verses on the Rayaņávali, Dr. Bühler puts about the years V. S. 1214-1215A. D. 1159 (p. 37). The text of the Yoga-Sastra as also that of the Vītarāgastotra were probably written shortly after V.S. 1216 - A. D. 1160. The commentary, on the other hand, was probably completed a few years later (p. 40).
The composition of the T. S. P. C. is placed by Dr. Bühler, between V.S. 1216 and 1229-A, D. 11601173. The last five cantos of the Samskặta Dvyaşraya Kávya and the P. D. K. or Kumāravālachariya as it is called also belong to this period. “The commentary on the Abhidhānachintamaņi was probably the last of the scholarly works of this late period. The fact, that in this commentary both the Y. S. and the T. S. P. C. are cited, proves not only that it belongs to the period after V.S. 1216-A. D. 1160, but also that it was written during the last years of the author's life' (p. 49). As a further proof of this late date, Dr. Bühler adduces the fact that the commentary of the Anekārthakosa was written by Hemachandra's pupil Mahendrasūri who wrote it in his master's name after the death of the latter (Hemachandra) (p. 49).
The Pramāṇamīmāmsa, according to Dr. Bühler's opinion, also belongs to the works of the period of V. S. 1216-1229-4. D. 1160–1173 (p. 49 ).
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