Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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over the Deccan from the Narmadá to Mysore spoke of themselves as belonging to the Mânavya gotra or, as the word might be interpreted, to “the race of Manu ;” and there were several of them the second part of whose name was Aditya, such as Vikramaditya, Vinayaditya, and Vijayâditya. But the sovereignty of the country was wrested from them by another family known by the name of the Rashtrakûțas before the Saka year 675 or 753 A.D. ; while Sankarâchârya, the preceptor of our author's teacher Sureśvara, is said to have been born in 710 Saka or 788 A.D. The Châlukyas, however, were not exterminated by the Rashtrakûtas and they probably governed a small province as their dependents. But our information with regard to them after the extinction of their power is very scanty. There were two princes among them of the name of Vikramâditya, and perhaps Sarvajīâtman alludes to one of these. If, however, the description given by him is considered hardly applicable to a minor clief and the family of Manu spoken of by him was really the early Châlukya dynasty, Samkarachârya's date must be pushed backwards to about the year 680 A.D. so as to place his grandpupil in the reign of at least the last king whose name terminated in the word Aditya, viz., Vikramaditya II. Vikramaditya II. ceased to reign in Saka 669 or A.D. 747. If, on the other hand, we place Sarvajñâtman in the reign of the first prince whose name terminated in the word Aditya, i. e. Vikramaditya 1., who was a powerful monarch and who ceased to reign in Saka 601 or 679 A. D., Sarkarâchârya must be referred to about the end of the sixth century. (K., Appendix II.) Among the Vedântic works based on Purâộic
originals may be noticed the Works based
on Yajnavaibhavakhanda, Purânic originals.
(No. 666), with a commentary by
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