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A, D.),20 Harsakirti say8 -
तगच्छामलमण्डन सुविहितश्रीचन्द्रकीर्तिप्रभोः
शिष्यः सूरिवरः स्फुरदद्युतिमर. श्रीहर्षकीर्ति. सुधीः । तेनेयं रचितात्मनिर्मितशुभश्रीधातुपाठस्य सद्
वृत्तिः स्फूर्तिमियतु यावदुदितः श्रीपुष्पदन्ताविमौ ॥५॥ "A spotless ornament of this gaccha 21 (and pupil of the well-gifted Śri Candrakirti Prabhu (18) the best of sūris (and) load of sparkling lustre -the erudite Śrı Harsakirti. By him ( was ) composed this learned vrtti on his self-produced beautiful Sri Dhatupatha,22 May It come into brilliance as long as these two Śru Puşpadantas28 rise!"
And in the colophon to the third section of his Adekartha,24 which is dated samvat 1665 (1608/09 A, D, he atatea --
बाणतर्करसगौ तु वर्षे तपसि मासि च ।।
राफाया हर्षकीया॑हसूरिश्चक्रे सता मते ॥३४॥ "In the year 1665, however, and in the month (of) Tapas, on full. moon day, the sarı named Harsakirti made (it) on the advice of the learned."
In the light of the foregoing remarka there can be no doubt whatsoever that the Vyakhyalesa manuscript in question was actually copied in savat 1635 (1578/79 A, D.), and that the Vyakhyālesa itself is not much older than this.
20. CF, H, D, Velankar, op cit, p. 197. The dato samvat 1717 (1660/61 A. D.)
recorded by Yudhisthira Mimmsaka, Samskri vyakaraş-Sāstra ka Itihas, pt. 1, Amor, 1963, p. 677, u obviously a misprint for samyat 1617, 1560 A.D being the approximato dato assigned to Hargakirti by S K. Bolyelkar. An Account of the Different Existing Systems of Sanskrit Grammar, Poona, 1915, p 103, who probably based himself on the fact (mentioned in Dhätuterangint, colophon, y. 3) that Harpakirti's teacher Candrakirti was bonoured by Selim Shah alias Islam
Shah, Emperor of Delhi from 1545 to 1553 A D. 21, Vit, the Nagapurnya Tapilgaccha, 22 Of the Sarasvatavyakarana. 23. I e, sun and moon. 24. Sen A B. Kolth, Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prākrit Manuscripts in the Library
of the Indla Office, vol. 2, pt. 1, Oxford, 1935, P 317. The date works out either at Thursday, 21 January 1808 AD, or at Wodoesday, 8 February 1609 A, D, depending on whether samvat 1665 is interpreted to denoto the current or tho expired year. The reckoning by current Vikrama years being rather unusual, the second date is probably meant by the author.
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