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to be offered when 23 days of Simha ‘are passed.’’! Accord- 
ing to the author, therefore, the star rises three days earlier in 
Rarha than in Ujjayini. This contrast of Rarha with Ujjayini, 
the centre of Hindu astronomical calculations, suggests that 
the author was using the calculations of his home land. 
C. JIMUTAVAHANA’S TIME. 
: Regarding the age of the author, a wide divergence of 
opinion exists. One group of writers would place Jimutavaha- 
na not earlier than thirteenth century and preferably in the 
fifteenth century; another group of writers would place 
Jimitavahana in the twelfth century, and some towards the 
l The Kala-viveka, p. 290, fe WPS wz afaaars- 
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wate caarc®a area | Again, Do.. p. 201. [S=ataat] aTaaa 
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five waifinfafeas ata wate | 
ao 2 See Dr. J. Jolly’s Tagore Law Lectures, 1883, Outlines of 4 hés- 
“a, of the Hindu Law of Partition, Inheritance and Adoption, p. 22. 
imiitav@hana cannot be referred to an earlier period than the thir- 
th century because he quotes Govindaraja’s commentary _of the 
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th century. Babu Rajkumar Sarv ! p. 402, * The 
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composed his treatise only a few yeats before the ° 
Bengal school co posed his immortal work.” Again in p. 403, You 
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€ sixteenth century (Ind. Off. Cat.. P. 460) 
