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dha or funeral rites and Prayascitta or expiation.' It quotes a 
few later works and writers, such as the 
Karmma-pradtpa (7). Yogisvara (1). 
Kalpa-taru (1) Raja (? Bhojadeva) (5.) 
Kama-dhenu (8). Vijianesvara (1). 
Ganesvara Misrah (2). Smrti-manjusa (1). 
Prakasa (1). . Harihara (4). 
Bhipala (1). 
(b) Vivada, which deals with civil or criminal law, and Vya- 
vahara or legal procedure and evidence, which includes a supple- 
according to Balariipa, the Parijata, the Kalpa-taru, Halayudha 
and the Smrti-sara itself. The references to later authorities 
are still fewer in this part, viz., the Kalpa-taru (1), Bhavadeva- 
dhara (2), and Halayudha (2). In the supplement Visvarupa (2) 
and Srikara (6) are quoted in the subsection of Balartpa, and 
Harihara and Medhatithi each once in the subsection of the 
Parijata. From the fact that the Smrti-sara itself has been 
quoted, the supplement would seem to have been compiled by 
some later writer. 
The work has no introductory or final verses, and the 
author gives no information about himself. It is not even cer- 
tain whether he is a Maithili at all. For the following reasons I 
have put him among the Maithilis. Firstly, the title Upadhyaya 
given to him in the final colophons is found mainly among the 
Maithili Brahmans and survives in modern times abbreviated 
to Ojha. Secondly, the Smrti-sara or its author is quoted as 
authority chiefly by the Maithilis and later Gauras,e.g., by Vacas- 
pati Migra in the Vivada-cintamani, by Varddhamana 10 the 
Danda-viveka, by Rudradhara in the Suddhi-viveka, by Devanatha 
Thakkura in the Adhikarana-kaumudi, and in Bengal by 
Silapani in the Durg-otsava-viveka, by Srinatha in the Sov 
viveka-vyakhya, by Raghunandana (see the Index to his 27 
tattvas), and so on. Thirdly he mentions in his Acara-section 
the Gauras generally such as Gaurah, Gauriya-vacana, Gaura- 
nibandha. The Gauras could have been quo eons 
period only by their neighbours, the Maithilis, witness — 3 
<aetegl and Candesvara. Hence Harinatha appears to have 
een a Maithili. eee ° : : 
His posterior date is fixed by Silapani quoting his oe. 
stra.2 So he must be older than fifteenth century 4.D. He 
, pp- 1-180, Vivada, pp. |-70; and 
. 1 The As. Soc. MS. II. 40. A; Acara 
supplement, pp. 76-84. ane oa 
2 The se g-oteava-vivekt, Sans. College Cat., MS. II, 335, fol. aa 
ivada 
By afager on tgfastt | The oldest MS. found, a copy of the 
