360 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [Sept., 1915. 
B. HIS TIME. 
In the colophons Bhatta Laksmidhara is described as son 
of Bhatta Hrdayadhara and as Maha-sandhi-vigrahika (peace 
and war minister) of Maharajadhiraja Srimad-Govindacandra- 
The anterior limit can now be fixed a little closer by the 
mention of Vijiianesvara. In the Vyavahara Kanda, su 
section dasy-adhikarinah, the opinion of Vijiianesvara is 
quoted and criticized.* According to the final verse No. 4 
reign of the illustrious Vikramarka.* The latter 1s evidently the 
western Calukyan king Vikramaditya VI whose inscriptions 
range from Saka 999 to 1047, or 1077—1325 ap. The time 
kandas had been composed in the first quarter. Hence the time 
of the Krtya-kalpa-taru falls partly in the latter half of the first 
quarter, and partly in the first half of the second quarter ° 
the twelfth century. 
Cc. HIS INFLUENCE. 
No commentary on the Krtya-kalpa-taru exists. In a 
compilations like the Kalpa-taru, Devanna Bhatta’s Smrl 
>: ae 
— 
Vink ck ak Na Mast, tol, tein 
Dan faeqgeanieea agrarfafanteaa eq cautrasataeal | 
facfga amaqacl azerarerfes sate tl : 
2 My article on ‘‘ Bhatta Bhavadeva,” J.A.8.B., 1912, PP- nip : 
8 Ind. Govt. MS. No. 1437, fol. 67a :—qaywwea qrae 
aaifa a arcafefa famatec: aca | I] be 08 
_ 4 Verse 4 at the end :—‘t There has not been, nor is, DOF wi beard 
earth a city comparable to the Kalyanapura; no king has beer evap that 
of who is comparable to the illustrious Vikramarka ; notom! ata. 
exists in this kalpa bears comparison with the learned Vijnegowed 
6 For the lates 
dated Saka 1047, see Ind. Ant. XII, p. 212. 
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