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8. 
sources. 
Miscellaneous. 
Before concluding I would point out that Halayudha of 
the Brahmana-sarvvasva is apt to be confounded with other 
writers bearing the same name. Firstly, he should be distin- 
guished from Mahamahopadhyaya Halayudha, the author of the 
arm-opadesini, a manual of rules for the daily ahnika rites. 
The work quotes the Kalpa-taru (fol. 21a), Kalpa-tarukar-adayah 
(535) and Sualapani (sraddha-bhede vyakhyatam Stilapanina).' 
So its author must be later than the fifteenth century 4.D., 
the date of Siilapani. 
_ Secondly, he should be carefully distinguished from the 
jurist Halayudha. The latter has been frequently quoted in 
Maithili works, for example 7 times in the Vivada-cr J 
tainakara of Candesvara. Halayudha of the Brahmana-sarvasva 
a; Furtbermore, 
this jurist Halayudha was quoted also in 
Kalpataru. of Laksmidhara® who had preceded the judge of 
Laksmanasenadeva by at least half a century. 
_ Thirdly, a Halayudha is quoted by Silapani (some 13 
times in his Sraddha-viveka) and ati 
5 times in his Sraddha-cintamani). Though criticized now an 
then his work was treated as an aut 
these writers. 
deal with this authority 
as disti ‘act of the present article. 
-enpaprapgpan  irse : writer of old Bengal. 
darkness, pitchy blind in nature 
cable phenomenon in the history of Bengal, 
Yet cared to notice it or to find out its cause. 
is, of course, the Musalman eruption. Bursting like a storm it 
swept over the land scattering and des 
Sh Sa a a 
troying the centres of 
;, Sansk. rongly entered as Brahmana-sarvvasva. 
la eta ene haloes Xi MS. No. 1437, fol. 6b, 61a. se 
t has confounded the two in his Catalogos Catalogorum, VO". 8.v. 
Haléyudha). 
