Prakritadhyaya

Author(s): Kramdishwar, Satyaranjan Banerjee, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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KRAMADISVARA
who, it is guegged, must have lived in 800 A. D.: and the other is one of the writers of the Kašikā which was composed about 660 A. D.*. It is to be noted here that it will not be unwise to suppose that Kramadiśvara might have mentioned the grammarian Vāmana and not the rhetorician Vamana. But in any case the upper limit of Kramadīśvara's grammar may be tentatively assigned to the end of the 9th century and the beginning of the 10th century A. D., if we do not place him in the 7th-8th centuries A. D. Furthermore, Goyidandra has also informed us that when the Bhāşya of Pāṇini differs from its ortti, Kramadīśvare gives the option to both the forms, or sometimes rejects the vrtti which is nothing but the commentary of Jayāditya and Vamana who came a little later than the Bhartphari in the 7th century A. D. That settles again the upper limit of Kramadīśvara.
§ 61. The date of Kramadīśvara is intimately connected with that of Jumaranandi and Goyīcandra. As regards Jumaranandī's date it can be said that he cannot be later than the first quarter of the 15th century A.D., since Rāyamukuţa, in his commentary on the Amarakoşa, calls him "Rasavaj-jumara".S Rāyamukuta wrote his commentary at Gauda in 1431 A. D. It may be pointed out, on the other hand, that Sarvānanda, one of the oldest commentators on Amarakoşa, (dated 1159 A. D. 1) mentions one "ahātu pārāyana" in his commentary. If it is identical with Jumara's treatise of the same name, then can it not be surmised that he or his work was well-known in the 12th century A. D.? These two dates may be regarded as the upper and lower limits respectively of Jumara in the absence of any conclusive evidence. It is to be noted that the authors and the works cited by him, are not later than the 11th century A.D. Moreover the title "Mahārājādhirāja" is significant. It gives to some extent some hints of the approximate time of Jumaranandi. It is known that the last Sämantādhipati of the lower Bengal region was Dāmodarapă la (1190 A.D.). So the epithet Mahārājādhiräja might be earlier than
1) S. N. Dasgupta and S. K. De, Hist. Skt. Lit. p.886. 2) P. V. Kane, Intro, to Sahityadarpana, p.139. 3) Vide, Th. Aufrecht, Zur Handschriften Kunde (Kommentare sum Amaar-kosha) in ZDMG (28), 1874, p. 113 where he has given a list of authorities quoted and consulted by Rāyamukuta.