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[NV.8.] 
Mansimha was governor of Bengal from the 38th to the 50th 
year of Akbar’s reign or from 1593 to 1605 a.p. Rudra’s time 
thus falls in the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first 
quarter of the seventeenth. 
udra Nyayavacaspati should be distinguished from the 
later Ramarudra Tarkavagisa Bhattacarya, son of Ramesvara 
and grandson of Bhavananda Siddhantavagiga, who wrote a 
number of philosophical works, familiarly known as Raudri.! 
16. VISVANATHA SIDDHANTAPANCANANA BHATTA- 
CARYA. 
He wrote in Nyava 
eee 
(v) The Nyaya-tantra-bodhini or Nydya-bodhint. : 
(vi) The Padartha-tattv-Gloka, a commentary on Raghund- 
tha’s Padartha-khandana. Stes 
(vii) The Bhasa-pariccheda, an elementary treatise in verse 
of the Vaisesika system with a commentary of his own, the 
Vyaya-siddhanta-muktavali, shortened to Siddhanta-mukiaval or 
‘imply muktavali. This work was widely read and was sub- 
‘ommented upon by half a score of writers. 
nd in metres, — . 
., Vili) The Pingala-prakaia, a commentary on the Prakrta 
P gala.chandah- siitra. Mie 
Visvanatha was son of Vidyanivasa Bhattdcdrya and 
younger brother of Rudra N yayavacaspati Bhattacarya. 9 
€ composed the Bhasa pariccheda in Saka 155s or 1634 
4D. at Vindavana.? So his time falls in the first and second 
i7. GOVINDA SARMMA. 
He wrote :— Q 
b (i) The Nyfya-samksepa, an elementary treatise of Nyay 
; on Gautama’s Nyaya-sitra, in karikas or verses wit 
‘ommentary ; 
(ii) And i fisa-vada, a short tract on com- 
pound peated the samasa- : 
a 
a 
| . 
two (A Pointed out by Pandit H. Shastri, Aufrecht has confounded the 
UA hectare 0, p. 314). e 
2 J.A.8.B., 1910, p. 313. 
