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mandirastotra, expressed a similar opinion but was not onder the circum. stances entirely convinced of the correctness of the date. The present note la meant to certify the scribe's statement by some new pieces of evidence.
In the final stanzas of his Vyakhyaleba, 10 Hargakurti offers the following information about himself and the origin of the work;
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सूरिश्रीप्रभुचन्द्रकीर्तिगुरवस्तेषा विनेयो वराम् । व्याख्या पाठकहर्षकीर्तिरकरोत्कल्याणसमस्तवे
मेधामन्दिरदेवसुन्दरमहोपाध्यायराजामहात् ॥१॥ “The beneficiant ruler of the Tapagaccha named Sriman Nagapuriyaka, the venerable stiri Sri Prabhu Candrakirti-his disciple, the pathaka Harga kirti, made (this) exquisito commentary on the Kalyanasadmastava at the fastigation of the king of mahopadhyayas Devasundara, (who 19) a temple of wisdom (personified).”
Chance would have it that a manuscript in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, of Siddhasena Divakara's Nyayavatara, 11 mada at the instance of Buehler in samvat 1931 (1874 A, D.), embodies & dedi. cation by one of Harşakırtl's disciples which is virtually to the same effect as far as the personalia are concerned, and that this dedication is dated samvat 1635 (1578/79 A D):
श्रीमन्नागपुरीयतपागच्छे भ० श्रीचंद्रकीर्तिसूरीश्वराणा शिष्यश्रीहर्षकीयुपाध्यायानामध्ययनाय पस्तकमदः ॥ श्रीनागपुरे। परमपुण्यपवित्र श्रीछजलाणीगोत्र सा०सकता तदात्मख सा०कम्मा तत्पुत्रेण सा०श्रीवीरपालेनादायि स्वगुरुभ्यः ॥ सं०१६३५ वर्षे ।।
"For the studies of the upadhyāya Srr Hacsakyrti, pupil of the lord of saris Bhattaraka Śry Candrakirti of ibe Śrman Nagapursya Tapagaccha. this manuscript was given by Saba Sri Virapala, son of Saba Kamma, son of Saha Sakata of the Sri Cbajalani Gotra- a gotra) pure by reason of its excellent merits-of Sri Nagapura, to his teacher in the year samvat 1635."
10. Ibid, p 128 11. Collection of 1873-74. No 91. Seo H R, Kapadia, op. cit , vol 18, pt.1, Poone,
1952. p 41. The transcript was completed by one Gopikrøņa on Wednesday, Vaisakha vadi 6, samvat 1931 (8 April 1874 AD), and revised by ono Vya Radhakrena on Friday, Vakha purnimi, samvat 1991 (1 May 1874 A.D), and the following day at Bikaner Its exemplar, together with a goodly numbor of other manuscripts formerly in Hargakirtl's postossion, now bolongs to the Anup Sanskrlt Library, Bikaner, bearing the number 6051. See C, Kunhan RAJA and K. Madhava Krishna Sarma, Catalogue of the Anup Sanskrit Library, Bikaner 1944, p. 457.
