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N, 
po Sena family as his seria Tradition names Laksmanasena as: 
ki whose court he flourished. His time may be thus 
approximately put in the fourth ares r of the 12thcentury. The 
i day. 
F as ye nown, wiz. (1) nanta 
Pandit’s Tayadgirtha ~dipand, (2) Gokulacandra’s Rasika-candrika 
and the ttkas of Gangarama, Narayana, and Viavesvara (vide 
Aufrecht’s éatalogue catalogorum, 
Of the six verses in the §.K. not to be found in the Arya- 
Sie ottene (ee. sapta-éati, one is given here as sample :— 
wat a yafy cart weq Barqeret 
atgetsufufuaacfagtanes: | 
afea asa facafa feat area 
aera fausq aaa | 
TI, 80°5, fol. 78a.. 
CIRANTANA-SARANA. 
One verse is quoted in the S.K. under this name. He is. 
probably to be identified with Sarana (s.v.). 
(VII) JAYADEVA. 
Author of the Gitagovinda. Little is known about h him, 
Seal goes, the re — little sree traditional and con- 
lyrical ing. 
Car ‘ea puts “him in Tirhut. About it Colebrooke- 
ote :— 
oF Pimhoot he “ Jayadeva is Py the Maithilas said to 
“be their countryman. In Tirhoot, a town 
‘on the Belan river near Jenjharpur, bears the name of Kendoli, 
supposed to be the same as Kendiili...... kilva sic vilva is a family 
“of Maithili Brahmanas.’ 
eyond the similarity in the name, nothing else has been found 
to support it. The tradition may have originated by confounding 
the Gita-govinda-kara with a later vernacular gr Jaideb. The 
latter flourished in Mithila, by we Ph: 1400 a pd. S.B. 1888, 
p- 12); and Dr. Grierson extracted one Hindi wae of his in the 
J.AS.B. 1884, . 88. 
A second tradition claims him as of Orissa (see e7ewre s 
Sanskrit Bhaktamala, sargas 39 to 41). 
a ——— According to it, Jayadeva was born in the 
of 
1 SRR: wented oy: 9a qaceaite | ae 
Sagufaaagufatat cametee | se | 
