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Pribhakaras, are unsparingly slashed. The views and opinions 
are quoted either generally in a vague way, under kecit, kascit, 
acit, anye, apare, itare, ucyate, vadantt, tad-uktam, ity-uktam, or 
simply as navyah, navinah, atina vinah, or occasionally under 
schools as Mimamsakah ave. "Prabhikarah, Bhattah, Vaise- 
sikah, Vedantah, Sabdikah, Tantrikah, Tridandinah, Sampradaya- 
“ an oad, and so on. 
e given very rarely, e.g., Khandana-kara (Ila, 
ai, oeats jaran- naiyayike (III. 61) Mandana or 
danacarya (1Vb, 11.587, 14.847), Ratna- kosa-kara (IIa, 15.585, 
IVb, 13.830) Vacaspati Misra (I, 3537, IIb, 81), Sivaditya 
sis sL me). Srikara (IIc, 186), besides the Maha- Bhagavata- 
na the Visr nu-puranda. Verses of Udayanacarya’s 
ak mediijali are quoted, viz., its III. 15 (in IVa, 1.91-2), and its 
V.8 (in IVb, 13.820-1) while according to Mathuranatha’ s com- 
mentary the «es pedi in I, 2.424 is from the Acarya. carana’s 
Bauddha-dhikk 
In the final i dophen een is given the title of U padhyaya 
(modern Ojha), a class of Brahmans who with the Misras and 
Thakkuras practically aceocted rene learning i in Mithila 
PP amauopsdhyaya calls himself son of Gangesvara. 
e anterior limit of Gangeéga is fixed by his criticising an 
Opinion of Khandana-kara. His work should therefore be later 
than the third quarter of the twelfth century. He must have 
Preceded by a generation his son Varddhamana, whose time falls 
approximately i in the first quarter of the thirteenth century A.D. 
Gangesa may therefore be placed in the fourth quarter of the 
twelfth century during the overlordship of Laksmanasenadeva. 
2. VARDDHAMANOPADHYAYA. 
He wrote mainly commentaries, and is the oldest_ com 
mentator k known on Udayana’s works and on Stiharsa’s Vedantic 
Work. His ceo bear generally the suffix ‘prakasa. 
He wrote in Nyay 
(i) the attonsinscinneiiieanain? a commentary on 
his father’s work, to be distinguished from a 
the same name by Rucidatta ; 
(ii) sa NV ets SD a commentary on 
Nyaya-varttika- tatparya-pari- 
suddhi, quoted i in his own No. vi; 
(iii) the: N: yaya-parisista-prakasa, a commentary a 
seg anacarya "8 N yaya-paridista, quoted in is 
(iv) n No. vi, and in nc a’s reaas 
vad the Prame a-nibandha asa, w 
hth e as the Promeyadaticn- bodha, quoted 
Be Teferences are to the Bib. Ind. ed. of the ene tt 
t a MS. see the Benares College Catalogue 
