354 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Sept., 1915. 
(iii) yc santi-tattva, re of funeral rites to 
be performed at Tripuskara 
(iv) Gayj-svtha pada, ‘desoribing the funeral cere- 
monies to be performed at Gaya. 
(v) Risa. yatrd-paddhati, describing the ceremonies of 
the Rasa festival which had been omitted in the 
previous works. 
B. HIS TIME. 
The time of Raghunandana, though so famous, has not yet 
been established. His lower limit is fixed by the earliest mantu- 
scripts. A MS. of the Chandoga-sraddha-tattva has been found 
copied in Saka 1497 (1575-6 a.p.); a MS. of the M atha-pratistha- 
tattva in Saka 1498 (1576-7 a.p.).!. The works themselves 
must therefore be still older. The upper limit is fixed by the 
time of his guru Srinatha Acarya-curamani a and by the mention 
of Saka 1421 (1499-1500 a.p.) in his bil Bisogs8 as a year in 
which the visubha or equinox lay half-way betw he zodia- 
cal signs Mina and Kanya.? His time senate te roughly 
between EOI 1608 A.D. 
ing to ascertain a nearer approximation in time, I 
will first dissuos some of the arguments on which Ra ghunandana 
natin tried to be placed after the middle of the sixteenth 
century es 
According to Pandit Haraprasida Shastri, the Pratistha- 
atta, ‘one of the 28 books of the writer’s great digest, 
was composed during the latter half of the sixteenth eons: 
It quotes prs Hari-bhaktivilasa of Gopala Bhatta composed 
in A.D. 1562. 
There are te Pratistha-tattvas in the digest, one on Deva, 
and the other on Matha. I have searched both and have not 
iN 
the MS. of Saka 1497, see R. Mittra, Notices, , WL, p- p. 80 (Ne 
1081), po of Saka 1498, Do., p- 53 (No. 
> Sr. ed., I. p. 330, faua awa ac arn WHR | 
of § Nepal has been di ances For e Ha i 
epal Durbar Catalogue (1905 , preface, p. Xvii. sag 
bhakti, Sr. ed., i. 239, ii. “4 or 5) prota 8 as R. sive, Noi 
VI. 193 (No. 2125) :— 
faat | 
vftufafeerey agian fease 
Steracteqat q aagarsaifedt a 
The time 
