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I can only agree with Professor Jolly (loc. cit.) that Madanapala did not cause portions of the Bhashya to be recomposed, but merely completed the defective MS. of his library from a copy purchased in some other part of India. The place where this girnoddhåra was made, was Kashtha, near Delhi. For as the verse says that Madana was the son of Saharana, it is not doubtful that this person is identical with Madana or Madanapala, the patron of Visvesvarabhatta, who wrote the Subodhini on the Mitakshara and the Prayoga- or Madanapårigàta. Visvesvara gives, in the introduction to the latter work, a portion of his patron's genealogy 1, and states that Madana belonged to the family of the chiefs of Kashtha, and was the second son of one Sadharana. It is easy to see that in the verse quoted above the Prakritic form Saharana has been used instead of Sadharana for metrical reasons. This Madana has been identified by Mr. Colebrooke with the homonymous author of the Madanavinoda, which is dated in Vikramasamvat 1431 or 1375 A. D., and Mr. Sarvadhikari 2 confirms this identification, by telling us that the Madanavinoda contains the same pedigree of Madana as the Pårigata. Hence the restoration' of the Bhashya must have occurred about five hundred years ago.
more or less correctly given, in seven old MSS. from various parts of India. In my opinion it should be read as follows : मान्या कापि मनुस्मातिस्तदुषिता याख्या मेधातियः सा लुमैव विधिवशाक्वचिदपि प्राप्यानयत्पुस्तकम्। बोगीन्द्रो मदनः सहारणसुतो देशाननरादाहृतं जीर्णोद्धारमचीकरनत इतस्तत्पुस्तकैलेंfasa: # 1 differ from Professor joliy at the end of the second pada, where he reads with a Benares MS. AT a ongea , and at the end of the third pada, where he changes the reading of the MSS. चाहते or चाहती to पाहते.
· Aufrecht, Cat. Sansk. MSS. of the Bodleian Library, p. 274.
• Tagore Lectures of 1880, p. 389. Mr. Sarvadhikari wishes to read the date brahma (1) gagat (3) yuga (4) inda (1), (Mâgha sodi 6, Monday,) as 1231. He thinks that yoga may also denote the figure 2, and that the reading Vikramasamvat 1231 is necessary, because the Pårigata is quoted by Kandesvara, who wrote in the thirteenth century. He is, however, mistaken, as the astronomical calculation shows that Magha sudi 6 of Vikramasamvat 1431 did fall on a Monday (Jan. 8, 1375), while the same day in V.S. 1231 was a Thursday. The Pårigåta quoted by Kandesvara must, therefore, be some other work on law. The title is a not uncommon one.
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