1918. | The Tativa-cintamani. 281 
Author of the Work. 
The Tattva-cintamani is the immortal work of Gangesa, 
also called Gangegvara, surnamed Spee yes who was a Mai- 
thila Brahmana. He was born in a village named Karion on 
the banks of the river Kamala twelve miles south-east of Dar- 
ground adjacent to his uncle’s house, and sae from her, as 
a sre deep erudition in the science ‘de 
sophy. Nothing is definitely known about the Gauda Mima- 
msaka*® or Srikara* mentioned by him. Gangesa_ must have 
flourished after 1093-1150 a.p., the period when Ananda Siri 
and Amaracandra Siri,§ whose opinions he has quoted, flour- 
ished. As he criticises the Khandana ena khadya he mu - 
have been 2 fcc also to Sri Harsa who lived in Kanauj 
the Court of King Jayacandra in 1186 a.p.5 The latest AER 
that can be assigned to Gangesa is 1556 a.D., when, according 
to the Dhanukha inscription,’ Mahega Thakkura, haiothes of 
1 Vide fhesicacciekhisayi: Pratyaksa Khanda, p. 830. 
2 The Ratnakoga, a work on Vaigesika p hilouochy, has been 
not only by Gangega in the Tattva-cintamani (Sabda gst akhayta- 
vada, p. 830, and anu uména — P- 885) but also by V ardhamana in 
‘ atnakoga is diff 
peel aaa eI work on the Vedanta philosphy by Akhandaénanda— 
well as from ia ee a work on Jaina ec are by 
‘ Vide Tattve. cinta mani, S§abda kha nda, Jati éakti vada, 
6 Vide S.C. Vidyabhusana’s Indian Logic: Medieval Scheel, son 47- 
48. Ananda and Amaracandra, nicknamed as Vyaghra siguka and Sirpha- 
Siguka, have been referred to we Gangega in the Tattva-cintémani under 
mna- of ti. 
ss 6 Khan ar apr trrapacargi Se is quoted in the ee Anu- 
mana-khanda, p. 233, Bibliotheea Indica series. For Sri Harsa and . aya- 
arnt see the Indian Antiquary, 1911-12, Pricina-lekhaméla, nos. 22-23 ; 
d B.B. R.A. 8. of 1875, p. 279. Jayachandra was killed by Sahtbuddin 
eae in 1194 
1 The Saieinuaci, is found on a stone-slab attached to a walls at the 
st 
vi Dhanukha near Janakapura in Darbhanga. It run 
ufwaqawaroa 
St: weqerge fulcgaa wee wat | 
Br afaaet sataa ‘ 
Waest away aa fafwereu: saat fara: 0 
. 1478 referred to here corresponds to 1556 A.D. That Mahesa 
Thatta as a brother of Bhagiratha Thakkura appears from the open- 
75: 2 eh adiaa Dravyaprakaéiks by the latter. 
