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close of the ieleventh century.! As both the conclusions can- 
not be correct, being self-contradictory , it has become desirable 
to review the salient facts, and to come to some conclusion, 
if possible. 
The posterior limit of his time is fixed by the oldest MS. 
CS ae re existing, viz., that of the Kala-viveka 
das: er limit of his (Ind. Govt. MS. No. 1568). The MS. 
itself is not dated, but has at the enda 
chart of nativity of a son born to one Ghataka Simha, dated 
Saka 1417 or 1495 a.p. The MS. should therefore be older than 
this date, how much older there are no proper materials to go 
upon, any inference from the difference in ink being purely 
guess work. The treatise must be still older. It would be 
thus fair to infer that the treatise cannot be later than the 
beginning of the fifteenth century. 
_ This lower limit is fixed also by Jimitavahana and his 
Kald-viveka being quoted in the Durg-otsava-viveka of Siila- 
pani? Silapani’s date is as yet unsettled. But as his 
Sr addha-viveka is quoted nearly twenty times in the Sraddha 
second ‘quarter of the fifteenth century. The Durg-otsava- 
viveka was a fairly late work of Salapani quoting therein five of 
fi 
The anterior limit is necessarily derived from the references 
in Jimitavahana’s works. e ust 
be later than Bhojadeva, the king of 
Dhara, of whom an inscription dated 1021 a.D. has been 
found.? He should be later than Visvariipa who is later than 
ML SC OO a 
Its upper limit. 
1 The late Babu Golapchandra Sarkar in his edition of the Dayo 
krama-sangraha deduced from certain statements in the matchmase 
records that Jimitavahana flourished about Sarnvat 1199 or the pg 
of the twelfth century. Pandit Pramathanatha Tarkabhugana 2 4 
preface to the KGla-viveka (p. ix) thinks that ‘‘he must have ae 
in saka 1013 or a.p. 1091.” Sir u 
the twelfth century (Rep., 1905, p. 
? The Durg-otsava-viveka, Sanskrit College Cat. MS. IL, 3353, fot 
Glavi 
uota- 
qader 
e 
tions from the K@lavivek . mI, - tions 
Parag ts fol. 3a, 4b, 17b; for quota 
Jimitav@hana, see fol. 3b "ka +? der Jimi tavabana come 
from the Kalaviveka, . 3b, 5a, The quotations under Jim 
# Ind. Ant., V1, p. 53. 
