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[V.8.] 
covering four thousand pages and far from completion as yet, 
not a single Gauriya smrti work or writer can be traced. t 
authors like Bhavadeva, Aniruddha, Ballalasenadeva, Hala- 
yudha had flourished in Gaura, preceding Hemadri authenti- 
cally by a century or more. 
ng or minister. 
Furthermore, from the end of the twelfth century down- 
wards, Bengal was overrun by hordes of Turks and other 
illiterate tribes. They ravaged the land and gradually dis- 
Persed all centres of learning. Only a few centres in the outly- 
ing tracts escaped, and a few of the learned men saved them- 
selves only by flight to safer tracts as Mithila or Orissa. The 
_ hew very little of the older scholarship in Gaura except by 
sue and generally nameless traditions. Even in Mithila, 
vhich had not lost all connexion with Bengal, the references 
ml vaguely as Gaurah, Gaura-vakyant, Gaura-omrts, Gaura- 
tha, or still more vaguely as Praiicah. 
Meee. oes, sat 
‘For such references see, for example, Sridatta’s Salaries, 
hd. Govt. MS, No. 2903, fols. Sa and 43a ( @¥ST: ), sb (atgfawarerdt), 
tbe (tetaafa ); and Candeévara’s @RICATHT, Bengal As. Soc. MS. 
MLD. 19, ‘fol. 206, 55a, and 121b (ast), 43b, 54b(2) and vas 
), 75a and 125a (atefarat), 111b and 149 (ateeefar). 
~ WE, see Sridatta’s @T@I<TSW, Bena res ed. (Sarhvat 1924), p. 166. 
© Dina-sa i ted by name in the 
S nly Bengali work quo y 
{rvaratnakera, Pes Sree Dana-vakyavali of Candesvara and of 
i. 
