60 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1912. 
the seventh) is supported, according to him, by the facts that the 
Prakrt contained in a canto of the Bhattikavya is undoubtedly 
older than the Prakrits of the seventh century dramas and that 
Bhattkavya does not refer to the story of the Uttara-kanda of 
the Ramayana. 
tence of a real Bhatti of Valabhi can be proved by epigraphic 
evidence. 
An inscription dated Valabhi Samvat 334 (653 A.D.), which 
has been numbered 485 in Dr. Kielhorn’s ‘* Northern List,’’ . 
records the donation of a village by Dhruvasena ITI (son and 
successor of Dharasena IV) to the brahmana Bhatti- bhat(t)a, 
the son of Bappa, who comes from Mahichhaka, dwells at 
Mahichhaka and belongs to the chaturvedins (brahmanas versed 
m the four Vedas) } of this (place), to the gotra of the Kausikas 
and to the school of the Vajasaneyas.’’ 
ae 
identification of this Bhatti with the author of the Bhatti-kavya 
ee yamangala gives 
of our author, while the 
the son of Bappa. But 
nts of the commentators. 
t 
Bhatti of the inscription is stated to be 
no reliance can be made on the stateme 
— a ptions as equivalent to 
vety probable that Bappa is here used 
not as a proper noun and means ‘‘father.’’? Probably the 
question did not know the 
! * : . . . ~ 
: ance : the inscription is RaQ G* 7 BaAreay. This means four 
ranches of knowledge and not in four Vedas, Hul i in hi 
; A S : t 
eb e pies follows him without bape a Haw cou fe 
aaa m tour Vedas study only the Vajasaneya Shakha ?— 
2 Colebrooke’s Essays, vol. ii, pp. 115-16. 
