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Satta ys ufuraefas (ony wae erat xfwa: | 
i.e., the Dana-sagara was composed in the Saka year 1091 
or A.D. 1169. In the Samaya-prakaéa a somewhat similar 
verse appears :— 

fe I HAD -_ Sy bo 
que sd Dt a oy oe eases ee ee ee \ 
“eC ~ 
qu afuaaenfad eeraat xfaa: ; | 
Furthermore in the Adbhuta-sagara itself we find mention 
of the Saka years 1082 and 1090. Thus in the section on’ 
the portents of the stars sapt-arst (seven sages) YAIGeWT 

i haibs om MIN o moos he 
Rose faa Wh Mas Sl ia SNe Se Ral Sa alqlaseday 
famtarai (Ind. Govt. MS., fol. 52b), bhuja (2), vasu (8), 
dasa (10), 1082 Saka (a.p. 1160) in the beginning of the reign 
of Ballalasena. Again in the section on the portents of the 
planet Vrhaspati appears a reference to Saka 1090, WaTga- 
HatsiFVMS HITAITMTST | eee 7 WaTSaSytu- 
atq (fol. 28b). 
All these references make it fairly clear that Ballalasena- 
deva was living in Saka 1090 and 1091 (A.D. 1169). The time 
of his spiritual teacher, therefore, falls in the third quarter 
of the twelfth century (1150-1169). He could not have 
flourished much earlier than this, for in his Karm-opadesini- 




‘ Kalpa-taru is an abbreviation of the famous 
Krtya-kalpataru, a compilation (samgraha) of civil and reli- 
gious law, by Laksmidhara Bhatta, the foreign minister to 
Maharaja Govindacandradeva of Kanauj. Of this king we 
Se ee 
1 Gaude Brahmana, by Mahimacandra Mazumdar, p. 72. 
> India Office Library Catalogue, p. 475 (MS., folio 114b). 
Silapani in his Staddha-viveka quotes Kalpa-taru, e.g., 
faster warafa aadarfesqets | 
‘a é : a 
faa: mama fae aearfaat 
WU WeTaG | ay aeqaa:) - 
century A.D. Glapani must be later than the first half of the twelfth 
