286 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Sept., 1915. 
Bhavananda as preceptor of Raghavendra must be a gener- 
ation older than him. Raghavendra having compiled the smrtic 
work Rama-prakasa attributed it to his patron Krparama, who 
is said to have been favoured by the Delhi Emperors Jehangir 
and Shahjehan.! So Bhavananda’s time falls in the first quarter 
of the seventeenth century. 
15. RUDRA NYAYAVACASPATI BHATTACARYA. 
And in Vaisesika :— 
(ii) The Kiranavali-prakasa-vivrti-pariksa or Bhava-praki- 
3ika, a sub-sub-commentary on Raghunatha’s sub-commentaly. 
(iii) The Padartha-khandana-vyakhya, a commentary % 
Raghunatha’s polemical work. 
And in poetry ,— 
(iv) The Bhava-vilasa, a poem in praise of the prince 
Bhavasimha, son of Manasimha, the Rajput Governor of Bihar 
and Bengal. ; 
(v) The Bhramara-ditam, on Rama’s message to Siti 
during separation through a bee. 
(vi) The Vrndavana-vinoda-kavya, in praise of Krsna, and of 
his early sports in Vrndavana. ; 
udra Nyayavacaspati was son of Vidyanivasa Bhattics 
rya and grandson of Vidya-vacaspati who had been honoured 
by the king of Gaura.2 Visvanatha Siddhantapaficanan was 
' The Ra vod. ver 
4and6. Pandit H. Shastri would bring Cirafijiva’s date & century late! 
verses 1 and 135, No. 18h 
and 2; H.Ss Ret * “1910, P: 
Vidiyh-vinaniical 4 Sanco the Bhasi-pariccheda, JA.S.B., 191%: Dutt 
otsava Tattva; while 
Yzoe | Bitwa | 
* For the Naiyatak@lika MS., see R. Mittra, Notices, VI, 
MS., Ind. Off 
nd for Ba = 
& a } 
a2 . Cat., p. 409, No. 1385. 
