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[V.8.] 
Trials by ordeal (divyani) have been excluded by the 
Like the amet? this work is es of quotations, some 
Its References. x hundre 
sGiodtly from Smrtickara Rsis, twenty 
in number. Among them the following are quoted largely, 
viz. Katyayana (137 times), Brhasp ati (127) and Narada 
(107), all late if Nag al Manu (40), Myiss (36) and Yajna- 
valkya ( ow longo intervallo.! A few verses have no 
names, probably borrowed in this form from some previous 
compilati 
mo ng tater bd cic Vivardip deserves to be specially 
mentioned, because one n object of the work was to clear 
im of various faults finned by other writers. Towards the 
end of the Kriya-pada, the author says:—‘‘ By me has been 
put forward this explanation (Vyakhya) of the eastern treatises, 
having discussed (the subj ject) after clearing the imputations 
o Visvariipa and others. Visvarupa crn ten times is 
sometimes criticized, but is more often defen 
The other later writers named are—Jitendriya (2), Diksita 
(l), Bala (1), Bho 2). Maiijari. ra ae yagisles (Yog- 
goka in the Decc. Coll. MS.) (9), Srik = te twice entitled 
ira. Manjari-kara is e be ide sited prshi vy with Govinda- 
hah a Sean aiaass on the Manu-samhiia, Mk wrote the 
mrt art. 
hibualonalty Srikara, but more often Yogloka, has been 
ttiticized. Yogloka has been dubbed five times Tarkikam- 
manya or pseudo-logician, sod his views sneered at with such 
temarks as tad-asangatam, heyam, tan-n-adaraniyam and so on, 
48 in the a ee ta 
Betw the Vs yavahara-maty ka and the Mitaksara @ con- 
Parison, I find common in both, at least 30 verses of ag 
Yana, 18 verses of Brhaspati, 11 verses of Narada, 5 verses 0 
ee Oe 
figures in ett sage from Sir Ashutosli Mukherjea’s pre- 
A couple of verses at least t will have to 
S03! 1), me Nnrade, age pigs Gobaans sae nine to Katyayana, according 
28 0 the Dees: Coll. 
2 Printod puro p. 352; Dece - Coll. MS., folio 54. 
grat faqaat <3 TST CRA | 
“ faweare icra safes (eu) 
5 See the Ind. Govt. MS. No. 1437. 
