Vol. XI, Nos. 10 & 11.] The Hist. of Smrti in Bengal. 403: 
[V.S.] 
most pandits of the time, were his guravah (preceptors).! omg 
the final colophon of the Danda-viveka he is called Dharm 
adhikaranika or judge, and of the Smrti-tattvamrta he is oulied 
Maha-dharmm-adhikari or chief judge. 
- Varddhmana wrote the Dandacsteske at the instance of the 
King Bhairava, and the Ganga-lrtya-viveka by order of Rama- 
bhadradeva, while his Tattv. amrta-sar-oddhiira he offered to 
and the others lie between these two extremes. The Danaa 
viveka and the Smrti-tattv-amrta are productions of a somewhat 
mature age. 
Varddhamana must be older than the year La. sam 376, 
Pausa vadi 13 Budhe (1496 a.D.), when a MS. of his Ganga- 
krtya-viveka, one of his latest works, was copied. He must 
be at least a decade younger than Sankara and Vacaspati, 
his preceptors. Some of his works were written during the 
reign of the king Bhairavasimhadev va. So his literary activity 
the Naiveyite of he same name, son of Gahaesopsahvars 
mana (the modern Varddhamana). 
. MISARU MISRA. 
He wrote in Sm 
(i) the rdeatte ea dealing with Vivada and Vyava 
hara oy the end). Its quotations from named later sathontion 
Parijata (1). | Ratn-akara-krt (1). 
are, Vyavahara-tilaka (1). 
havadeva (2). | [Smrti- oo < osga eaemaae (1). 
fos Shore (10). | Smrti-sara ( 
He wrote also (ii) the ecahengeeaiiiel on the categories 
Mee to biepme rain 2. syste 
1 The Danda-viveka (As. Soc. MS. page 1), S coauctoes verse 6 :— 
sary aisatas giacatqual FF ATs | 
Th 
> Sans. Coll Cat. MSS. II, 116 (and 117), and As. Soc. Bengali MS. I. 
B. 4 
