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the =nH allowed a word in ą to be compounded with a word that in dissolution would be in the genitive case. So ATIHTE rightly says that न्यासकार allowed such compounds. I think that Mr. Trivedi is not right in insisting that a-ar must be found in the न्यास. भामह very often employs the word उदित for what is stated in a work or by an author.1 So we should hold that पृत्रहन्ता was used in some work which ामह knew, but which we do not know. Prof. Pathak is not right in under- standing लोके before उदित: (Annals B.O.R. I. vol. XII p. 390). Therefore wecome to this conclusion that the TH of जिनेन्द्रपुद्धि was known to भामह. We must now turn to the dates. I-tsing, in his 'Records of the Buddhist religion', describes the काशिका (at p. 175 of the translation by Dr. Takakusu, Oxford, 1896) and states that Jayaditya died nearly thirty years before. I-tsing wrote his work in 691 A. D. So Jayaditya died about 661-62. This date is corroborated by the fact that the काशिका on पा. I. 3. 23 quotes the किरातार्जुनीय of भारवि III. 14, viz. the पाद 'संशय्य कर्णादिषु तिष्ठते यः'. We find from the न्यास on the काशिका that numerous mss. were made of the Kāsika and that the copyists of =naaR's days by mistake added a certain example to the original examples of the Kāsikā.2 So that would require at least a generation or two. Hence the #TrH cannot be assigned to a date earlier than 700 A. D. The न्यासकार could not have been a contemporary of Jayaditya. As arHg expressly mentions न्यासकार, भामह must be placed after 700 and before 750 A. D. Prof. Pathak changed his original opinion of Bhamaha's priority to Dandin (expressed on p. 16 of Intro. to कविराजमार्ग) in ABORI vol. XII pp. 81-83. Prof. Pathak showed that Pātrakesari, Śāntarakșita and Prabhācandra were more or

1. भामह II. 5 (यथोदितम् by himself), II. 19 (प्रहेलिका सा घदिता रामशर्माच्युतोत्तरे), II. 45 (दृष्टं वा सर्वसारूप्यं राजमित्रे यथोदितम्), IV 8 (दाडिमानि दशापूपाः षडित्यादि यथोदितम्). 2. On पा. VI. 3. 79 the printed काशिका gives three exam- ples, सकलं, समुहूत, and ससंग्रह्म्। On this the न्यास says: (p. 469) 'ससंग्रहमित्येतदुदाहरयं प्रमादादिवानींतनं: लेखकंलिखितम'. The word इदानींतनै: is important. The editor (in Intro. to न्यास p. 21; furnishes other examples to show that काशिका and न्यास were separated bya good deal of time,