________________ and is propably fit to be accepted as well founded The very fact that the writers of the Digvijya should invent a story that Shankeracharya included him among his conquests may perhaps be taken to point to either the inmidiate priority or the contempor aneousness of the celebrated Jimansa writer. " If he was contemporaneous with Shankeracharga the date assigned to the latter by Xsr. Kashinath Trimbak Telang would be somewhat to early by more than fifty years. Off course as yet nothing has been liscovered to establish beyond dispute the necissity of placing the to scholars in the same generation or even in the same century, since the tradition about tiieir being contemporaneous is based upon grounds which need further confirmation At the presant all that we can . say is that it is highly probable, that the both lived in the middle of the seventh century Kumaril bhatt being the senior of the Two. as will be shown further on. ઉપર પ્રમાણે બતાવી તથા શંકર શારીરક ભાષ્યમાં લખે- લા કેટલાક રાજાઓના રાજ્યકાળનું મુકરર કરી મહ શય શંકર : પાંડુરંગ, પ્રાકૃત મહાકાવ્ય ગેડવામાં ભગવાન શંકરાચાર્યને ઈસવીસનના સાતમા સૈકામાં મુકે છે. મુંબઇના બેલગામના કે. બી.પાઠક મહાશયે ઈંડીયન આંટીકવરી નામના પત્રમાં એક શુક “ત્રિપત્ર” પ્રકાશિત કર્યું છે dui ar -- Sey his paper attached to his edition of Mudrarakshasa. Bombay Sanscrit sories 1884 in wbich ho very ably discussos the questions, P.P.AC. Gunratnasuri M.S. Jun Gun Aaradhak Trust
