317. APPAYYADĪKSITA 319

APPAYYADĪKSITA 319

अलक्कारसवस्वसजीविनी, he is later than the 14th century. There is a great deal of controversy about the exact period of Appayya. The generally accepted dates are 1554 A. D. to 1626 A. D. Vide E. I. vol. XII. p. 340 (plate of Śri Rangaraya II dated saka 1499). It records that at the request of Śevappa Nāyaka, the first prince of the Nāyaka dynasty of Tanjore, the विजयनगर emperor श्रीरङदवराय granted the village of Arumolimangalam to the Madhva pontiff Vijayindratīrtha, who before he became a sannyäsin, was a friend of the cele- brated Appayya. On p. 345 the editors quote the following from the com. of शिवानन्दयति on the आत्मार्पसस्तुति of भप्पय्य- वीखातत्त्वश्ञसंख्यालसितकलिसमाभाक्प्रमादी च वर्षें कन्यामासे तु कृष्यप्रथमतिथियुते- प्युत्तरप्रोष्ठपादे। कन्यालभेऽद्रिकन्याप तिरमितदयासेवधिवैंदिकेषु श्रीगौयें प्राग् यथाह स्म समजनि विरिब्चीशपुर्या कलेशः ॥ लग्ने रवीन्दुसुतयोमंकरे च मान्यौ मीने शशिन्यथ वृषे रविजे च राही। चापे गुरौ क्षितिसुते मिथुने तुलायां शुक्रे शिखिन्यलिगते शुभलभ एवम् I. This gives the horoscope of अप्पय्य and states that he was born in afer 4654. The editors of the plates further note that acc. to the शिवलीलाणंवकाव्य of नीलकएठदीचित (grandson of अप्पय्य's younger brother Accan) अप्पय्य lived for 72 years and composed one hundred works (I. 6 कालेन शम्भुः किल तावतापि कला- श्वतुष्षष्टिमिता: प्रशिन्ये। द्वासप्तति प्राप्य समा: प्रबन्धाष्छतं व्यवादप्पयदीच्ितेन्द्रः ।।). This date is very seriously challenged by Mr. Y. Mahalinga Sastri (in J. O. R. Madras vol. III. pp. 140-160) who says that the horoscope set out above in two verses was forged by Appaya's biographers and that if we take into account the kings mentioned by scqey in his several works, viz. Chinna Timma, Chinna Bomma and Venkata, the proper dates of Appayya should be 1520 A. D. to 1593 A. D. He relies (ibid p. 141-149) on an inscription in the temple of Kālakantheśvara at Adaiyapalam, the birth-dlace and ancestral abode of Appayya, dated śaka 1504 (1582 A. D.), which mentions Appayya, son of Rangaraja and his patron Chinna Bomma and the fact that he wrote 100 works. This establishes, acc. to Mr. Sastri, that in 1582 A.D. Appayya must have been an old man. It is possible to argue that some one put up that inscription long after the death of Appayya, and may ask what guarantee there is that it was inscribed during Appayya's own life and, if it be said that a horoscope was forged, there is nothing to prevent an inscription being antedated when Appayya's fame had spread far and wide, If sjcyry was dead in 1593 as Mr,