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tain their respective times, so that the gradual development in 
ideas can be traced out. In a previous article I have already 
dealt with one of the oldest Bengali writers, Bhavadeva Bhatta. 
In the present article I deal with five other important names 
of the Bengal School, viz. :— 
1. Jimita-vahana. 
a sort of supplement I have added a few notes on 
Bhatta Laksmidhara, whose work exercised considerable influ- 
ence on the subsequent Smrti literature not only of Bengal but 
of other provinces. It is my object also to deal in another 
paper with Smrti in Mithila. For apart from their own intrin- 
sic merit, the Smrti writers of that land considerably influenced 
and stimulated the later smrtic studies in Bengal, and there- 
fore no account of Bengali intellectual life in the mediaeval 
eet can be complete without some notice of these Mithila 
pandits. i 
For facility of readers’ information the result of my dis- 
cussion as to timings is put down here in a tabulated form:— 
Authors. Their approximate times. 
A. Pre-Sena Period. 
1. Bhavadeva Bhatta (Rarhiya, 
Savarna gotra) -. Second half of the eleventh 
z century. | 
2. Jimiita-vahana (Rarhiya, 
Paribhadriya) .. .. First quarter of the twelfth 
century. | 
B. The Sena Rule. : 
3. Aniruddha Bhatta (Varendra, 1th 
Campahattiya) .. Third quarter of the twe 
4 century. 
4. Ballalasenadeva (disciple of 3) Do. 
5. Halayudha Bhatta (Rarhiya, fth 
Vatsagotra) .. .. Fourth quarter of the welt! 
C. The Hindu Revival. 
6. Silapani Upadhyaya (Rarhi- 
ya, Sahuriyan) - ”,, First quarter of the fifteen 
7. Kullika Bhatta (Varendra, 
andanavasi) 
Do. 
