356 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (Sept., 1915. 
mentions these years would have been composed some time 
later, but not much later, say about 1545 a.p. The Suddhi- 
kaumudi itself is mentioned in the author’s other works, the 
Sraddha-kawmudi and the Varsa-kriya-kaumudi, which must 
therefore be still later, or say about the middle of that century. 
Now the editor of the Biblotheca Indica edition says that 
‘ Barsakritya has been quoted by Raghunandana Bhattacarya 
rana.’! He would therefore place Govindananda earlier than 
Raghunandana, whose time accordingly would fall later than 
It is juoted five times by Raghunandana, in one of whic 
he distinctly says :—Vidyapati-krta-varsa-krtye Kalpa-latayanca 
Gargyah, thus mentioning a Varsa-kriya of Vidyapati.® It would 
Raghunandana cannot be the Varsa-kriya-kaumudt of Govinda- 
nanda, for the former work is quoted by Govindananda 
himself in his Sraddha-kawmudi, a work composed earlier than 
Varsa-kriya,* and while quoting the same no hint is given there 
that the said work was Govindananda’s. Thus no data exist 
for holding that Raghunandana ever quoted or even knew any 
work of Govindananda. 
On the other hand the year Saka 1421, quoted in the 
Jyotis-tattva, could not have been far from the time of its 
composition as then the astronomical calculation would have 
been within the memory of the writer. Moreover as @ pupil of 
ished 
Srinatha he cannot be much later than his guru who flour! 
ee Gr eee eee kOe et ee 
S a = 
qe AMAR UTA AwATS: | aa: Wt anqarne fy a genet a= 
Sal HeATS: | 
1 Preface to the Varsa-kriya-ka i, p. ii 
8 umudi, p. ll. 
prep MS. II, 335, fol. 17a. a sdasi 
ip St" Och» Mala-masa, i449, 474, 475 ; Durg-otsava, i. 66; ema 
2 . ‘ ‘ 
The Kriya-kaumudi quoted in the Sraddha-kaumudi, p» 559- 
