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the Naisadhiya to some date between 1167 A.D. and 1174 A. D. Gadādhara, a commentator of the Naișadhīya, makes Śrīharsa a protege of Govindachandra of Vārār asī.1 Mańkha informs us that a king of Kānyakubja, named Govindachandra, sent an ambassador to Jayasimha, king of Kashmir.2 It is not unlikely that this is the same as the king mentioned by Gadādhara. Vārāņasī and Kānyakubja may have both been the capitals of the king, or the king may have conquered Vārānasī after coming to the throne of Kanauj. There is another line of reasoning which leads us approximately to the sama date as the above. Srīharsa wrote the Khardana- khandakhādya3 in which he ridicules Uday: na by twisting a verse of the latter. उदयन wrote his लक्षणावली in sake 906 i. e. 984 -- 5 A. D. 'तर्काम्बराङप्रतिमेष्वतीतेषु शकान्ततः। वर्षेषूदयनश्चके सुबोर्धा लक्षयावलीम् ।।'. (d) Cardīdāsa, a commentator of the Kāvyaprakāśa, was the younger brother of Visvanatha's grand-father. It has been shown (p.274) that the काव्यप्रकाश was composed between 1050 and 1100 A. D. Candīdāśa is not one of the oldest commentators of the Kāvyaprakāśa and Viśvanātha is removed by two generations from him. Prof. Bhattacharya in his edition of काव्यप्रकाशसक्केत in Cal. O. J. vol. II. p. 10 (note) finds fault with me for saying (on p. 73 of my Notes) that in the words मान्य and उपजीव्य the reference is to रुय्यक. He says that विश्वनाथ refers in these words to चएडीदास's दीपिका. But I am not at all wrong. He admits that the words set out in the साहित्यदर्पण are not found in the दीपिका. I gave two meanings of that passage : (1) विश्वनाथ rebukes रुय्यक for going against मम्मट who is both मान्य 1. See Prof. S. R. Bhandarkar's Report on his second tour for 1904-5 pp. 43, 87. 2. अन्यः स सुहलस्तेन.ततोऽवन्धत पशिडतः । दूतो गोविन्दचन्द्रस्य कान्यकु्जस्य भूभुजः ॥ श्रीकगठ०.XXV. 102. 3. 'षष्ठः खएडनखएडतोऽपि सहजात्क्षोदक्षमे तन्महाकाव्येडयं व्यगमन्नलस्य चरिते सर्गो निसर्गोज्ज्वल: l।' at the end of the sixth sarga of the Nai. 4. See Preface to Nyāyr kusumāñjali, p. 15. Udayana's verse is 'शक्का चेदनुमारत्येव न चेच्छक्का ततस्तराम्। व्याघातावधिराशक्का तर्क: शक्कावधिमतः ॥' 3rd स्तबक, 7th verse p. 282 of न्यायकुसुमाअली, on which Sriharsa retorts 'तस्मादस्माभिरप्यस्मिन्नर्थे न खलु दुष्पठा। त्वद्वाथवा- न्यथाकारमक्षराशि कियन्त्यपि। व्याघातो यदि शङ्कास्ति न चेच्छक्का ततस्तराम्। व्याघातावधिराशक्का तर्क: शक्कावधि: कुतः ॥'.