392 Journ. of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [Nov. & Dec., 1915. 
(«) The Durga-bhakti-tarangint. on the pramana and the 
prayoga of Durga worship, composed under the patronage of 
Dhirasimha, whose brothers Bhairavendra and Candrasimha 
are also named. 
e have got two dates of Vidyapati’s time. Firstly, the 
date of the MS. of the Kavya-prakasa-viveka copied by his order, 
La. sar 291, Karttika vadi 10 (no week-day) equal to 1410 a.p.; 
and secondly the date of the MS. of the Bhagavata-purana 
copied by Vidyapati himself in La.sam 309 Sravana sudi 15 
Kuje, or 1428 a.p. 
Apart from these, the kings named help us in finding out 
whom one date, Sarivat 1446 or 1389 a.D., exists. Kirttisim- 
ha’s time therefore falls in the last decade of the fourteenth 
century. The latest king named is Dhirasimha, of whom one 
date exists, La. sam 321, calculated to be 1437 a.p. So then 
Vidyapati’s literary compositions extend from about 1395 
a.D., or for about half a century. As he could not 
have completed any works before the age of 20, he must have 
lived to a pretty old age, beyond three score years and ten, the 
age sighed for by the Psalmists. In fact the pandits as a rule 
lived in those days to a good old age; and hence without 
putting themselves to any hurry or extra labour some of 
them, like Vacaspati Misra and Raghunandana, could produce 
a large number of works. 
Indrapati Group. 
In the second half of the fifteenth century we come across 
several workers more or less connected with one another. One 
such group was of Indrapati who with his father Rucipati and son 
Premanidhi formed a learned family, and who ad also a 
learned pupil, Laksmipati. 
amsa water, on the philosophy of religious rites, com| me 
the ignorant of Mithila. It applies the rules of Mimamsa pee 
sophy to settle the truth and the nature of various Smrtie rites, 
vrata, Sraddha, yaga, dana, etc. 
12. PREMANIDHI THAKKURA. 
He compiled a digest of smrti, the Dharmm-adharmm® 
prabodhini? the understanding of right and wrong: iar 
: R. Mitra, Notices, V, 281, No. 1959. 
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