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time therefore falls in the third and fourth quarters of the fif- 
teenth century. 
10. MISARU MISRA. 
He wrote Padartha-candra, on the categories of the 
Vaisesika syste 
Like his emrtic work the Vivada-candra, it was attributed 
.of the Mithila king Bhairavasirhhadeva.! His time therefore 
fallsin the third quarter of the fifteenth century, if not earlier. 
He should be distinguished from one Misaruka, the author of 
the Nyaya-dipaka. 
With iar and Vacaspati disappear the notable Nyaya- 
writers of Mithila. Navadvipa in Bengal now rose into impor- 
tance, and soon eclipsed Mithila. In the sixteenth century we 
still come across in Mithila a few Nyaya writers, showing that 
its study was not entirely neglected in that period. 
ll. DURGADATTA MISRA. 
The author of the Nyaya-bodhini,? who discusses therein 
some of the eleme entary principles of Nyaya and Vaisesika. His 
time is uncertain, probably of the sixteenth century. 
12, DEVANATHA THAKKURBA. 
He wrote the Taitva-cinia-many-aloka- parisista,” a supple- 
nent to Gangesa’s work and J ayadeva’s Aloka thereon. A MS. 
of his work was as copied in La. sarnvat 443 or 1562 a.D. by order 
of the author himself, So Devanatha should be men in the 
quarter of the sixteenth century. 
13. MADHUSUDANA THAKKURA. 
He wrote the Tattva-cinta-many-dloka-kantak-oddhara,> a 
bmmentary refuting the objections to Jayadeva’ s Aloka. He 
is. be older than La. sarnvat 491 or 1610 a.D., the date of a 
who of his ee ae must be later than Vacaspati Misra on 
_ he wrote another Kantak-oddhara Hi 
Dvaita aya 
a ntury ia alls roughly in the third quarter of the sixteenth 
‘2, Mittra, N otices, IX. 12, No. 2901, introd. verse 2 :— 
jeaqae fear 
‘ thy — ange eigsbaee uf a : 
Misaru in the Inttot half of the 2 fourteenth aay, or a century 
| a 3029; H. Shas- 
tri Notices, V. 64, IX. p. 129, No. 
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