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that he lived for eighty years, they must have deducted this number from S. 1120 (the date given in the (Bhârata-tâtparya-nirnaya) and arrived at S. 1040 for the date of birth of Madhvacharya.
If, according to the matha list, we take the date of demise of Madhvacharya to be S. 1120, the date of the end of Padmanabha Tirtha's pontificate would become S. 1126-7, and of Narahari, S. 1135-6. Then Narahari could not be represented as making or causing others to make gifts to temples in the years between S. 1186-1215, that is, fifty years after his death in S. 1135-6.
In a foot-note in his paper on the Srikurman inscription of Narahari Tirtha, Mr. Krishna Sastri writes that the Svâmi of the Phalmâru matha told him that his matha list gives Pingala and Îsvara as the dates of birth and death of Madhvâchârya2s and this is very near the dates arrived by us.
The Madhva-vijaya mentions that a certain king named fśvara was ruling over the Mahârâshtra country when Mâdhvacharya passed through it. This king is identified by Mr. Krishnasami Ayyar with Mahîdêva of Devagiri who ruled from A. D. 1260-1270 (S. 1182-1192), his reason being that both of them possess a name which refers to Siva, and poet Narayana Panditâcharya, the author of Madhva-vijaya, might have, for exigencies of metre, rendered the real name Mahâdêva into its equivalent, Isvara. We do not know how far this identification is tenable. In case the identification is assumed to be correct the meeting of Mâdhvacharya and Mahâdêva must have taken place in the last part of the life of the former, which is not what the Madhva-vijaya has. Therein the event is said to have taken place in the middle of the life of the Acharya, that is, when he undertook his second journey to Badarî.
A second prince is also mentioned in the Madhva-vijaya; viz., Jayasimha of Kumbla. We confess we are at present unable to identify this king with any hitherto known to history.
The facts noticed in the previous paragraphs may be tabulated as follows:
Birth of Madhvacharya ...
Assumption of holy orders..
Tour to the south.
Second tour to Badarî
Narahari's regency begins...
Do.
do. ends
Pilgrimage to Badarî.
Conversion of Sobhana Bhatta, Sâma Sâstrin, and Govinda
Bhatta.
Death of Madhvacharya and the accession of Padmanabha Death of Padmanabha Tîrtha
Narahari's pontificate
(To be continued.)
... S. 1118 (or 1120)
S. 1128.
28 Ep. Ind. Vol. VI, p. 263, footnote 1.
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S. 1186
S. 1197 S. 1197 S. 1204
S. 1204-1215
