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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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PREFATORY NOTICE.
Varadarāja's Tärkikarakşā and commentary entitled Sarasamgraha were briefly noticed by Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar in the Report for 1883-84, p. 81. Further information is now appended. Varadaraja is silent in regard to himself. But he must have lived after Vācispatimicra and Uday:mācārya to whom he constantly refers as authorities, sind before Madhavācārya by whom the Tärkikarakşa is mentioned in the Survarlarçauasaingraha. The two earlier Schoolmen were literary contemporaries. Vācaspatimiçra wrote his Nyāvasūci in the year 976 A. D. (vide Bibliotheca Indica ed. Pandit Vindhveçvarīpresarla Dvivelin, Librarian, Sanskrit College, Beoares). Ulayinācārya wrote his Lakpaņā vali in 984-5 A. D. (vide Benares Sanskrit Series ed. P. Vindhyeçvarīprasāda Dvivedin). But Udayanācārya was probably much the younger man, as his Pariçuddhi is a commentary on Vācaspati's Tātparyaţikā. He may be supposed to have lived as late as 1050 A. D. This date would furnish the terminus a quo for the time of Varadarāja. The terminus ad quem would be about 1300 A.D., that is to say, fifty years roughly before the time of Madhavācārya.
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Possibly Varadarāja may have to be placed not later than the first half of the XII Century. This conjecture is based on the exis. tence of a commentary on the Tārkikarakşā entitled Laghudīpikā composed by Jñana pūrņa. The Layhudipikā is not mentioned in the Catalogus Catalogorum ; nor has a notice of it been met with elsewhere. A copy of the work (on paper), transcribed in Samvat 1459, exists in the possession of P. Vindhyeçvarīprasäda (vide Appendix A.) Jñanapūrņa mentions as his guru Vişnusvāmin, the son of Yajñeçvarahari, but gives no certain indication of his date. If Jñānapürna be identified, conjecturally, with Jñānadeva who was the immediate successor of Vişņusvāmin the accepted founder of the Vallabhācārīs (vide Wilson's Religious Sects of the Hindus pp. 34 and 120), a nearer approach may be male to the date of Varadarāja. Viņņuswāmin is represented in the Bhavisyapurāna as preceding Nimbāditya and Madhvācārya (vide Appendix B.).
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