326 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Sept., 1915. 
In the midst of this haze some faint gleam of light may 
e visible from the following facts. 
Taking up the subject of festivals pre- 
valent in and peculiar to Bengal, I find a fair similarity in the 
His early age. 
the Kala-viveka has a special section (pp. 511-530), in which are 
Bengal, e.g., about the Dasahara, the Krtya-ratnakara quotes 
8 out of 17 verses in the kala-viveka and calls them @¥Tst4- 
Kojagara (all the two), Bhratr-dvitiya 
f 
had borrowed them from the K@la-viveka, not directly for then 
the work would have been likely named, but indirectly as 
Gauriya-smrti. 
gain, the Kala-viveka has a special section on the ascer- 
tainment of (the kind of) oil (to be used), tail nite 
tarkikath, and adds that according to Gauras boiled oil is not 
prohibited. Here Sridatta may be borrowing from some cont 
mon stock, but the data available at present do not shut out 
the view that he might have borrowed from the Kala-viveka 
indirectly. 
In support of the earlier timing it may be further urged 
at the smrti-writers generally quote 
astronomical calculations which are 
meee ear to their time, that is, which may 
be within their knowledge or memory. enc 
Saka 1041 and 1042, mentioned in the Kala-viveka (PP. 21, 
49, 64) stood near to the time of the composition of that 
work, and therefore it cannot be put much later than 1100 <i 
Jimitavahana’s time may thus be tentatively put ™ wt 
beginning of the twelfth century. The authorities quoted bY 
Jimita-vahana are all old, and their times, 8° far as know? 
are a Suse with this conclusion. 
the absence of ¥ ions it is not pr 
any cross ehichoaaris t 7. Tineataval sin 
Beginning of the Twelfth 
Century A.D. 
acticable 
The Seationsd fa his or. oO) which work the 
Works. mS was composed first. Judging be wok 
subject-matter alone, the Kaa 
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which deals with the fasts and festivals would have beep ae 
legal procedure and evidence ; and lastly the Daya-b 
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ay : an 
deals with inheritance and division, which ormed sections 
