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Sidri: a store room on either side of the tamsál (open yard). Karnal S. R., 1872-80, p. 120.
Sijja: wet, damp. Kângra Gloss.
811 : the 7th of Chet on which day enormous crowds collect at the shrines. Cf. sili odten and Sitld's 7th. Karnal S. R., 1872-80, p. 150.
Sila : hedgehog. Bauria argot.
Silt saten: the 7th of Ohet on which day enormous crowds collect at the shrines. Cf. ail and Sitla's 7th. Karnal S. R., 1872-80, p. 150.
Sills : an ear of corn. Kangra Gloss. Simbhalu: a tree (vitex negundo). Karnal S. R., p. 9.
(To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA. CAN WE FIX THE DATE OF
Sankaracharya must for a similar reas.be SAMKARACHARYA MORE ACCURATELY P assigned to the latter half of the same century."'
It is a well-known fact that in his gloss on the And Balavarma mentioned by the Kadab plates Vedanta-sútras Sankaracharya makes mention of must have been ruling precisely in the second some kings who are supposed to be his con- balf of the 8th century, or, as we have calculated, temporaries. One of these is Balavarma, who is from A. D. 767 to 785. There can thus be little twice alluded to by the philosopher, once in his doubt as to this Balavarmi being the conBhashya on Sitra IV. 3, 5 and once on Sátra II. temporary prince of that name alluded to by 4.1. This Balavarmi has not yet been identified, Sarıkarachya. but he seems in all likelihood to be the prince of This conclusion receives & remarkable con that name referred to in the Kadab copper plate formation from another source. Sir Ramkrishna charter of the Râzhţrakata king, Govinda III. Bhandarkar says: "At the end of a work Sank. It records the grant of a village by this king to shepaś&riraka, the author Sarvajíåtman, the papil the Jains muni Arkakirti, in remuneration for of Sureśvara, who himself was a papil of the his having warded off the evil influence of Saturn great Sarakarâchårya, states that he composed it from Vimaladitya, the governor of the Kunuigil while the prosperous king of the Kshatriya race, district. VimalAditya's father was Yasovarman the Aditya (Sun) of the race of Manu whose orders and his grandfather Balavarman, They claimed were never disobeyed, was ruling over the to belong to the Chalukya family. Now, the date earth." This description, as the same authority of the Kadab charter is Saka 735=A. D. 813, tells us, would apply with propriety to a king when therefore, Vimaladitya was living. Suppos- with Aditya as a component of his name and being that at that time Vimaladitya had reigned longing to the race of the Chalukyas, who, as the for 10 years and assigning a period of 18 years to ingeriptions inforn as, were of the Manavya each one of his predecessors, we find that Bala- gotra, And whom can this description fit bette: Varma was reigning from A, D. 767 to 785. This than VimalAditya mentioned by the Kadab grant brings us exactly to the time when Sankaracharya referred to above P Vimaladitya was a is shown by Prof. K. B. Pathak to have Chalukys, as the same inscription tells us, and flourished. He says: " Bhartrihari is oriticised Aditya of course forms part of his name. What is by Kumarila who in his turn is criticised by more, he is son's son of Balavarma just as Samkaracharya; Bhartřihari died in A. D. 650, Sarvajfatman was papil's pupil of Sarkar charya and became famous throughout India nearly VimalAditya is removed two generations from half a centary later as I-tsing assures us. Balavarm just as Sarvajnåtman was fron Kumârila, who must have criticised Bhartrihari Sathkarkch&rys whose contemporary was Balaafter the latter had become famous, of course
varma. belongs to the first half of the eighth century:
D. R. BHANDARKAR. 1 Gaüjadaho (BO. SK. Series), Intro., P. oozi and f. • Jour. Bomb. 4. Soc., VOL XVIII, p. 218.
• Early History of the Dekkan, p. 80.
