400 Journ. of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [Nov. & Dec., 1915. 
from about 1440 4.p. As Vacaspati compiled more than thirty 
works, his literary activity must have been spread over.a large 
number of years, say not less than thirty years from a.D. 1450 
to 1480, when he had become an old man, and reached an age 
more than 60, and possibly 70. 
Like Vidyapati, Vacaspati Misra attributed some of his 
works to Bhairavendra alias Harinarayana, viz., the Agtya- 
maharnava, the Vyavahara-cintamant and the Mahadana-nir- 
naya, and: wrote others by order, viz., the Dvaita-nirnaya by 
order of Jaya, queen of Bhairavendra and the Pitr-bhakti-taran- 
gini by order of the king Ramabhadradeva 
The name Vacaspati is not uncommon. Hence the present 
writer is apt to be confounded with others. Firstly, he should 
be distinguished niger the great Vedantist philosopher Vacaspati 
isra, who wrote on all the philosophical systems except 
Vaisesika, and cada Nyaya-sici-nibandha was written in the 
Aes 898, Vasv-anka-vasu-vakare. This year must be of the 
a samvat, as his Bhamati or sub-commentary on Bai 
nt 
Gane pre pec calls the Maithili Navina-Vacaspat- 
Misra, and by Raghunandana, who now — ~— quotes the 
work of hag ee philosopher along with the 
ondly, he should be distinguished ohn a > inte Vacas- 
pati, Candrasekhara Vacaspati.of Varendra Brahmana f family.” 
Tattva-bodhini., mentions Ramajivana Maharaja, a zamindat w. a 
flourished in the first half of the eighteenth pas: at Nattore 
in Rajshahi district, Bengal. 
8. VARDDHAMANOPADHYAYA. 
He wrote a apt of works on Smrti, most of which 
ended in the suffix » a 
(i) The @ ie teys-civala,! a discussion of the texts 
the rites to be performed on the banks of the sacred Ben 
Ganges. It quotes Ganesvara Misra, the 77 irtha-cintamant, *! 
Dharma-kosa, the Parijata, Brahmana-sarveas sva-krt, Medin 
. ' For the time of the Nyaya- Sten ph see the introduction sre 
izianagram series edition of that 
® Prof. Eggeling — pay eae Rey re two V — ee 
ae ‘sGra-sangraha, Ind. Off. ~ aa 450, No. 
3 Br. Museum Cat. en 75, N 
tes on the 
