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The Date of Siddharshi.
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commentaries on the तत्त्वार्थाधिगमसूत्र of उमास्वाति, yet neither men. tions the other. Now if on the strength of your maxim, EITHE had been contemporary with acha, how is it to be explained that he continually copies large passages from the other's work without indicating that they do not come from his own pen? If fagea had been dead many centuries before gitare wrote (or vice versa ), such a practice of verbal copying would not be objectionable, and is indeed common among Indian writers; but not so between contemporaries; for then it would be literary theft. Of course nobody thinks of laying such a blame at the door of either of the two authors; but then we must admit that they are separated by at least one or two centuries which on the other hand makes against your rule. Nor it can be assumed that the one did not know the work of the other since both were authors of highest renown, and besides their works frequently agree verbally; how then came it about that the one does not refer to the other and not even mentions him? By the by, I will remark that Haribhadra in the Lokatattva nirnaya does not only give verses of his own, but some can be proved to be taken from other works e. g. the two verses आसीदिदं तमोभूतं and ततःस्वयंभ भगवन् are taken from Manu I 5 f. These verses are not marked as quotations by Haribhadra, and so it becomes doubtful whether the remain. ing quotations in Silanka are really verses of Haribhadra's making. But I doubt that there was at all any such rule of etiquette among ancient authors, never to quote their con. temporary authors however great they may be.” For Ruy. yaka quotes in the Alankara sarvasva (p. 102 Kavyamala.) the verse TAITĪSU afràg from Kavyaprakasa 4.13; and Ruy. yaka was a contemparary of Mamata; and both are great authors in their way!
Thus I may say that the question about Haribhadra's date is not yet settled, and I hope you will succeed in throw. ing new light upon it.
I proceed now to calculate the date and Naksatra in Şiddharsis book 962 Jyestha sudi 5 gurau Punarvasu I have
