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[V.8.] 
(iv) Sambandha-viveka. 
Under this title, a pie pie tae of 12 gai hind 
verses, is attributed. to havadeva in H. P. ri’s 
‘* Notices, ’’ MS. No. 399.1 ‘Tt deals with ISR relationship 
as bearing on marriage, and has at the end the following :— 
sfa wataugaa: amafaam: sata In the absence of 
the writer’s title, Bala-valabhi-bhujanga, the authorship remains 
doubtful. 
(v) Other works. 
As regards other works of Bhavadeva, some information 
is available in a stone inscription of the temple of Ananta- 
Vasudeva at Bhuvanesvara town, District Puri, Orissa.” The 
inscription contains a pragasti or eulogy of the builder of the 
temple, Bhatta Bhavadeva, surnamed Bala-valabhit-bhujanga. 
After giving a brief account of Bhavadeva’s ancestors, the 
eulogy describes his attainments and productions as follows :-— 
Verse 20.—‘* An example of those knowing Brahma’ 8 
directly perceiving the deep quality of Bhatta’s words, the 
pitcher-born sage (Agastya) of the Ba uddha sea, ‘thi skilful 
in refuting the cavilling tricks of the heretics, he plays i in this 
world as an omniscient. 
V. 21.—‘* Having seen the other shore of the sea of 
Siddhania, Tantra and Ganita, producing world-wide wonder 
in Phala-sain hitas, the maker and diy eed of a new Hora- 
sastra, he became manifest as another Varaha 
V. 22.—**‘In the paths of Dharma-ésa astra, by reer 
good treatises he blended the old productions. good 
glosses elucidating the reg kes of sages, he ipa away 
doubt. on points of legal ac 
V. 23.—‘* In Mi cae he pepe , following sayings 
maxims, 
rays, do not endure darkness. What need to say more. 
Bhavadeva’s works on the Mimamsa, and on the Dharma- 
§astra, at least on two sections of it, samskara and prayaécitta, 
we have already seen. But his works on Hora-ésasira or horos- 
copy, and on other branches of astronomical astrology, still 
remain to be discovered. 
B.—His TEMPLE. 
The fame of seis should rest as much on 
temple as on his literary works. Consequently my article will 
be incomplete whhaas a brief description of this structure. 


1 Introduction to the ‘ ‘ Notices,”’ vol. i p. X, ani nd p. 4 p- 4 
2 J.A.S.B., VI, p. 280 ff., lc. in R. L. Mittra’s gry ape of Orissa, 
II, 84 ff ; Epigraphia la Indien, vi, 203 # 
