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of X. 8 omits Padmavati-ramana ; and the latter peeing, while 
supported by old fikas like the Rasika-priya, is preferable accord- 
ing to versification es. As regards I, 2, the same Bhaciaenst 
refers to the tradition and Te it (Padmavati tasya kalatram- 
eke vadanti yat-tan-na vicara-caru), 
ancoxdang to the OO Jayadeva’s home is bocliondad 
_ Home. n the second line of III. 10.1 The 
ee variously read as Tinduvilva (vide » the 
Rastke-priya) Ki eee Kinduvilla, Kendubilla, Kendubilva, 
Sindubilva. It is identified with Kendauli, District Birbhum, 
Bengal, on the north bank of the river Ajaya. An annual fair is 
h eld there on the last day of Magha in Jayadeva’s memory. 
, two verses of the Gitagovinda are quoted 
under yadeva, irs AI. it, Ae a i 
nr time of of the  yinyastair® (I. 59°4, fol. 296) and VI. 11, 
nf roel Angesv-abharanam (II. 37-4, fol. 60b). The 
poem must therefore have been composed before a.p. 1206. 
By the mention o oyi and other poets in I. 4, it could not 
likely have been written earlier than the rule of Laksmanasena, 
Its time therefore Geum falls in the fourth quarter of the 
twelfth century. Its verses noted (u , Jayadeva) four times 
in the 8.V., and 21 ra in ene S.P,4 The verse I (3) 11, 
| qfadt sazata etfas “aaa | 
‘fogfamaqranafem cama | ve | 
° ywaa. > farefoes, &e. 
2 §. wibeoecn 1313- 4, Pas oct 1613 ; os —Nos. 80, 3380, 3431, 3460-1, 
3481-2, 3498-3500, 3502, 3548-3550, 3609, 3 617, 3658, 3681, 3686-7, 3820 
3 In the Appendix to my article on “ The Eastern Ganga Kings 0 f Orissa” 
J.A.8.B, LXXII, 1903, p sien ds i negra - begehes 
dispapen of the S&hitya- clusion that the Séhitwa -darp Oriya 
ork, and that its author ‘Vievanitha flourished 
etree not later than i beginning of the 14th century. Since then I 
rosa en certain extracts from the same author’s Giopiprchisederoups in 
zs late V. Fong Jhalkikara’s edition _of the Kavyaprakasa (Bom. Sans. Ser., 
te) 
m rucim-kurv-iti pathah, a inku-padam Kas 
bhasadyam-aéslila-artha-bodhakam oautal Oris ae * dhrta- bandakadrava’ ity- 
di. e uial Oriya word (still in use) shows him to 
be an Oriya. rmore entions therein his Sahit oe, — 
and 10th vitheas), Deudeaeis, natika (8th ullasa) and a new work 
Narasimha-vijaye (5th. ullasa eth aie name of the last work indicates that he 
flourished vote the king Nar; ha. As his father, Candrasekhara, com- 
a - in honour of Bhanaders this Narsimmha cannot be earlier than 
Narasim uch later as Visvanatha’s grandfather's 
mani geet Candidasa, wrote - stinnag Marre dipika (quoted in K,- 
darpana). probably in the 13the Narasimhadeva II. raled Ori 
between a.D. 1278-9—1305-6 (J.A.8. B. LEXIL, 1903, p. 297). 
