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[V.8.] 
Raghunandana.! In the final colophon of one MS. of the 
Prayascitta-v° (Mittra, 415) he is given the title Bhatia; and in 
some other MSS. of the Durg-otsava-v° and in a MS. of the 
Dipa-kalika (Mittra, 1147) the full title Bhattacarya is given to 
him in the final colophons. 
In these final colophons Silapani is often called Sahurryan 
(Sthuriya, once Gandubhiyan wrongly), from his kula or family 
name. Sahuyiyan is said to have survived to the present day 
asa subsection of the Rarhiya Brahmanas. Though himself 
silent about his country, the Maithilis regarded him as a Gau- 
tlya, and Rudradhara distinguished his Sraddha-v° from his 
own work of the same name by calling the former Gaurtya. 
Cc. HIS TIME. 
of Bengal.? Pandit Haraprasid Shastri says :—** According to 
the settlement ‘of the Brahmanic hierarchy made by Vallala 
anterior to Vallala Sena, that is the eleventh century.’’* Accord- 
Ing to Professor Jolly,* Silapani was much later, and this 
opinion is accepted by Professor Hggeling. te 
he lower limit is fixed by the commentary of Srinatha 
- ntury, as I will show later on. At least half a century wo 
have intervened between the commentaries and the originals. 
» the Sraddha-v° and the Tithi-v° cannot be later than the 
_‘lniddle of the fifteenth century. ie oe 
_ . This viewis supported by the mention of the Sraddha-v° in the 
Sraddha-cintamani of Vacaspati Misra.’ Vacaspati Misra’s time 
as yet unascertained. But as he flourished during the reigns 
of the Tirhut kings Bhairavendra and (his son) Ramabhadra, 
Ge ee ee 
: adhya its i, 
Astavimsati-tattva, Srerampore ed.; for Ho pit <r 
1 The 
Pp. 178, ula i hamahopadhyaya, see 1, 
(2) ee ii, 7: for Maham opad. i se0. 
§ Shastri, Notices, Vol. I (1900) preface, P- *- 
* J. Jolly’s Outlines of Hinds Law, Tagore Law Lectures, 1883, p. 14; 
, IIT, 371. 
lag 6 Benares Ed. (Sk. 1814), pp- 2, 4, 8, 12, 25, 44, 55, 58, Lol, 108, 134, 
» 139, 141, 149, 157, 163, 177. 
