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(b) विश्वनाथ quotes a verse (कदली कदली &c. under IV. 3) from the प्रसन्नराघव (I. 37) of जयदेव who flourished between 1200 and 1250 A. D. We have pointed out in our notes to arfer- ou that Visvanatha often quotes1 verbatim from the Alankār- rasarvasva of Ruyyaka and in some places even criticizes it. We know that Ruyyaka was the teacher2 of Mankha, author of Srikanthacarita. In the 25th sarga of the Srikarthacarita Mankha tells us that he showed his work to an assembly of learned men in the house of his elder brother Alankāra8 who was minister4 of king Jayasimha of Kashmir (1129-1150 A. D.). The Śrikanthacarita was composed about 1140 A. D. at an advanced age. A good deal of time must have elapsed before Ruyyaka's work attained such popularity as to be the guide of a writer from Orissa. (c) Viśvanātha quotes some verses from the Naișadhīya- carita of Śrīharsa.5 The date of Śrīharșa has been for a long time a subject of discussion among scholars. Śriharsa tells us that he was patronized by a king of Kānyakubja. Rājaśe- khara in his Prabandhakosa written in samvat 1405 informs us that Sriharsa was the son of Hira, who was a minister of Jayantacandra of Kasi. It is probable that this Jayanta- chandra is the same as the Jayacandra that was a king of Kanauj. One of the earliest inscriptions of Jayachandra is dated in samvat 1223.7 Buhler referred the composition of 1. See e. g. pp. 41, 42, 60 of the text and the notes thereon. 2. तं श्रीरुय्यकमालोक्य स प्रियं गुरुमग्रहीत्। सौहार्दप्रश्रयरसस्त्रोतःसम्मेदमज्जनम्॥ श्रीकगठ. XXV.30. 3. मदग्रजन्मनः श्रीमल्लक्ककस्यसभागृहम्। तेध्यासते च विस्रष्धाः सारसा इव मानसम् ।। XXV.15. लक्कक must have been another name of MTEIT. In the third sarga Mankha tells us that he was the last of four brothers, the other three being शृङ्गार, भृद्त and अलक्कार (verse 45, 53, 56). 4. एकं श्रीजयसिंहपार्थिवपर्ति काश्मीरमीनध्वजं तस्योपासितसन्धिवि्रहमलक्कारं द्वितीयं स्तुमः ।श्रीकरठ० X.XV.61. 5. हनूमदाध: etc. (p. 31), धन्यासि वैदर्भि etc. (p.36) which are respectively नषधीय IX. 123 and III. 116. 6. 'ताम्बूलदयमासनं च लभते यः कान्यकुब्जेशरात' etc. last verse of the Naișadhīya. 7. J. B. B. R. A. S. vol. X. p. 31 ff.