Vol. XI, hes 10 & 1l.] The Hist. of Smrti in Bengal. 399 
(xx) The Datiaka-vidhi or roma testsibcatsties a 
manual of the rites for the adoption of as 
. To eee pairs this list, his works on pibaapiny are noted 
elow 
i) ‘The Anumiana-khanda-ttka,” said to give the essence 
of the views of Gotama (Nyaya) — of Jaimini (Mimanisa). 
It is probably a commentary on_ e Anumana-khanda of 
Gangesopadhyaya’s Tativa-cintamani 
(ii) The Khandan-oddhara * notes on the work of Sriharsa’s 
Khandana-khanda-khadya. 
(iii) The eS notes on the Nyaya-sitra of 
Gautama. A fragment only fo 
(iv) The Sabda-nirnaya, a gramnmatico-philosophical treatise 
on Sabda or dha No MS. yet found. Mentioned in his 
ne L sjhu-purus-Grtha-onbanliee is mentioned in the 
Benares College Catalogue as made by the Maithila Vacaspati 
Misra. If correctly attributed, it is not clear whether it belongs 
to Smrti or Darsana. 
His Famitry AnD TIME. 
Vacaspati Misra gives very little information of himself 
al none of his family. In the Nydya-siitr-oddhara, Vacaspati 
sper of 
had a son named scien who in 1501 a.D. wrote 
the Ganita-tattva-cintamani, a commentary on the Ganitadhyaya 
and Goladhyaya of Thiscarkeaevil s Siddhanta-siromant. in 
this work he calls himself the son of Vacaspati Misra, who was son 
of Kegava of the Upamanya Gotra Varddhamanopadhyaya in 
the Danda-viveka aeclared Sankara and Vacaspati as his guravah 
(preceptors). 
_ The above accounts show that he flourished in two reigns, 
viz., of Bhairavasirnhadeva, and in his old age of Bhairava’s 
Son Ramabhadradeva. 6 Bhairava may be taken to have ruled 
| H. Shastri, Notices, ‘TL, p. 90. No. 139 (6 folios). 
2 Nepal MSS., Notices, p- 
8 Sans. Coll. Cat., III, p. 1 97, N 
H. Shastri, Novices, 1. p- 98, 
fifth mecatdg o only). 
oldest MS. of his, & 
Sathvat 1416 Caitra Pcaeraeye. 
No. 3318). 
No. aie (incomplete, up to the end of 
copy of the Suddhi-nirnaya,. was dated 
or 1494 a.v., (BR. Mitra, Notices, X, p. 58, 
