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Krşņa's date. The lower limit is uncertain, and we shall consider it in connection with the date of his successor Madhavayajvan,
Krşņavipra's commentary seems to have been popular in Kerala. He refers to the Sahya as a mountain on the border of Kerala in his gloss on Setu 1.56, and mentions a North Indian custom in that on 1.2.
Unlike most other commentaries on the Setubandha, Kșsņavipra's work contains a number of quotations from Sanskrit texts, almost all of which will be found in the Extracts. Among lexicons he quotes, besides the Vaijayanti, Halāyudha's Abhidhānaratnamāla several times as well as Amarasimha and the Amaraseșa. The latter work is obviously a supplement to the Amarakoša like the Trikandašeşa of Purusottama. Aufrecht says that Amaraśeşa is another name of the Trikāndaseșa;' but our quotation does not tally with the corresponding statement in the Trikāndaseșa. It is therefore probable that the Amaraśeșa quoted by Krşņavipra is different from the work of Puruşottama.
There is another quotation in Krşņavipra's gloss on Setu 2.9 which purports to give the different meanings of pranayana, The Devanāgari ms, gives the source of the citation as seva; while the Grantha ms. gives it as Akhyāna. The Trivandrum ms. has Khyāta. The correct reading is probably Akhyāta, a work cited by Kļşņa in his gloss on Setu 8. 8.4. It appe
1 Cat. Cat. I sub voce. 2 See Extracts 8.102. 3 Krsna says तुषारः शीकरेऽपि चेत्यमरशेषे. The printed text of Trikāndakesa has तुषार:
A FEA 3.354. This appears also in a well-preserved ms. of Purușottama's work in the Madras Oriental Mss. Library (D 1600). 4 See Extracts 8.8.
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