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Introduction. No apology is needed at this late hour, I hope, for the publication of Vardhamāna's commentasyon Udayana's Kiraņāvali (Guņa section ), because the sub-commentary on Vardhamāna's work has already appeared in print in this series. The study of Prasastapādabhāșya can not be properly undertaken until all the late. works which have a bearing, either direct as commentary or sub-commentary or indirect as an independent treatise affiliated to the main stock of the school, on Prasastapādā’s masterpiece have been published. The Sūkti, Setu, Vyomavati, Nyāyakandali & Kiraṇāvali have appeared already. If Śrīvatsa's Nyāyalīlāvati refers to Vallabha's famous work of the same name, it has also come out. The present commentary is on Kiraņāvali and is from the pen of Vardhamāna Upādhyāya, son of the great Gangeśa Upādhyāya of Mithilā, author of Tattvachintāmaņi in four sections and father of the so-called Neo-Logic of Bengal & Mithilā.* The age of Vardhamāna is not precisely determinable, but it is believed that he belonged to the fourteenth century of the Christian era. He is said to have been the author of the following works:
* This Vardhamāna is to be differentiated from an earlier author of the same name associated with the composition in 1140. A. D.) of Gạnaratnamahodadhi and also" from "amater jurist of the same name, son of Bhaveša and author of Daņdaviveka, Dharmapradīpa, etc...
