Vol. XI, Nos. 10 & 11.] The Hist. of Smrti in Bengal. 381 
[N.S. 
But the facts that he is treated as an authority by the Maithili 
Smrti-writers and their successors, the later Gauriyas, and 
that he mentions the Gauriyas several timesin his works 
at a time when they were almost unknown in other parts of 
India indicate that his home was in aoe sn uses several 
vernacular words, which might furnish some 
His posterior limit is fixed by the aE one yi his works 
in the Ratn-akara and by the mention of his name therein. 
So he must be older than 1314 a.p. His upper limit is arrived 
at by his naming Harihara Misra and quoting from Harihara’s 
Bhasyas. WHarihara is often mentioned in Hemadri’s caturvar- 
ga-cintamani (Parisesa-khanda), and is therefore older than 
the fourth quarter of the thirteenth cenatury. In his Bhasyas 
Harihara names the Kalpa-taru-kara (first half of the twelfth 
century), and certain later commentators of Paraskara-grhya- 
siitra, such as Vasudeva Diksita a Renu Diksita.' So at 
In his srammatical Puribhasa, the well-known qe of 
the Supadma School, Padmanabha Datta, calls himself Sridatt- 
dmaja-sinuna. If this Sridatta be identical with the Smrti- 
writer then two generations intervened. Padmanabha Datta 
e the Prsodara-vrtti in 1375 a.p. Consequently Sridatta 
cannot be earlier than the begining of the fourteenth century. 
CANDESVARA GROUP. 
We now come to a family, several of whom wrote on Smrti. 
Hence they are grouped together 
4. GANESVARA THAKKURBA. 
Unele of Canlesrers and a minister (maniri) of Harasimha- 
deva, He w 
(‘) the ica steps to bliss, dealing with various 
kinds of gifts, ee are Kama-ghata- a-dana, 
 purusa-dina, and so on. No references to nibandhas 
found in the pai ghee MS. I have come acr 
Agnihotri Harihara, the 
Benares printed ed. of Bettia Raj, pp. 6, 18, 277, 423. " Apoording to a 
fra the Dibcich College Catalog, , 177, Renuka wrote his Grhya- 
in Sak 1266 A 
2 Ind. Gor Govt. MS. 6126, 2 26 "folios a he while ver aan. MS. hye 
the Nepal Notices (p. 131) has 90 fo lios. Thel S. begins wi 
Feafaguane eg 
se ecncad ao cee teers) 
1 The Paraskara-grhya-sitra-vyakhyana of 
