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[V.8.] 
it would not be far from truth to hold that Raghunandana’s 
principal works were composed between say 1515-1545 a.p. 
The twenty-eight tattvas with their supplements are 
monuments of wide reading, patient industry, and wonderful 
memory. Backed by keen reasonings, strong prejudices, and 
vigorous criticisms of the predecessors, specially the Maithilis, 
became famous outside Bengal. He and his school came to be 
known as Smarta-Bhattacairyah (probably from the junction of © 
his digest and his own name), or more briefly as smartah. 
After Raghunandana, little progress is noticeable in smrti 
studies. In fact Raghunandana gave the last word in the Bengal 
School of Smrti, just as in the century following Gadadhara 
' Bhattacarya did in the Bengal School of logic (Nyaya). 
VI. Bhatta Laksmidhara. 
Both the Bengal School and the Mithila School of Smrti 
were powerfully influenced by an outside work, the Krtya-kalpa- 
laru of Laksmidhara. Consequently no account of either school 
can be satisfactory without some notice of this writer. In the 
an article he will be discussed briefly under three 
A. His Works. 
B. His Time. 
C. . His Influence. 
A. HIS WORKS. 
_ Laksmidhara wrote only one work, the Krtya-kalpa-taru, 
the all desire-fulfilling tree of duties, or as it is generally men- 
tioned abbreviated, the Kalpa-taru. It is a general digest, a 
large compilation sub-divided into kandas or branches. No 
1 The fullest MS. is in the library of the Maharana of Udayapura. 
Peterson’s first Report, 1883, pp- 108-111. How large the original work 
must have b ferred from the fact that the existing twelve kandas 
be m . . 
alone (the first incomplete) run up to 1108 folios with 8 to 10 lines in a 
Page, which page had letters 39 to 52 in a line. 
ahara, Suddhi and 
aged, t the end (except the last) muc ten. 
Ly Per ‘ ge co ate tats page. Characters Maithili (see the letters 
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