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His title Nyaya-paticdnana was sometimes shortened to Pai. 
canana and sometimes changed wrongly to Nyaya-vacaspati. 
The gods of his invocatory stanzas varied, now Sambhu, then 
Krsna, sometimes Cid-atman. Of his pupils, Janardana Vyasa 
wrote a commentary on his No. vii, and another, name not 
given, wrote a commentary on the Sakti-vada of Gadadhara 
Bhattacarya.! 
ayarama with Devanatha Tarkapaficanana is mentioned 
as an authority in the rhetorical Hka-sasthy-alankara-prakas, 
and in the Alankara-sara-sthiti of Bhimasena Diksita, composed 
in Satavat 1712 during the rule of Ajitasimha in Jodhapara’ 
He should be older than Sarhvat 1716 or 1659 a.D., the date 
of a MS. of his Padartha-mala. His anterior limit is fixed by 
his guru Ramabhadra, His time falls roughly in the first 
quarter of the seventeenth century. 
13. GAURIKANTA SARVVABHAUMA BHATTACARYA. 
He wrote in Nyaya :— 
(i) The Bhavartha-dipika, a commentary on the Tarki- 
bhasa, an elementary treatise of Nyaya by Kesava Misra. In 
this commentary are named the Didhiti (occasionally criticized), 
the Tarka-bhasa-prakasa-kara (Govardhana), and Balabhadra, 
two other commentators of the original work. Gaurikanta 
named several times and is criticized in Madhavadeva’s 00 
mentary, the Tarka-bhasa-sara-manjarv. 
(ii) The Sad-yukti-muktavali. No MS. found yet. Quote 
in No. i. 
And in other branches, — pe 
(iii) The Ananda-lahari-tari, a commentary on Sankarace 
rya’s poem to Sakti. 
(iv) The Vidagdha-mukha-mandana-vitika, a comments! 
on Dharamadasa’s work on rhetorical enigmas. 2 : 
Gaurikinta was of Gauriya Rarha family, born . 
northern part of Gaura. He got favours of the king by °™ 
posing many nibandhas.? 
EDS ETS 8 LE pa AT OR at le OE a ee ee 
! Madras Catalogue, No. 4303, introd. verse 2 :— 
TATA TRSTI A | 
wed THA gMacTE afararaceg tl [FH] 
2 R. Mittra, Notices, X. p. 209, No. 4084. | 
No. 2400) 
8 The Ananda-lahari-tart (R. Mi : II. p. 245; 
end verse and colophon :— onscreen pei 
ce 
A ond 
Tart AGU YM qa TRA 
qa uftastyst sete at aasfaatare FF | 
oT ateraceaiears Te Masa ASA 
ugraral tat ¥ om facughat az arafeat [8H 
