Vol. VIII, No. 9.) Bhatta Bhavadeva of Bengal. 345 
[V.8.] 
have got numerous inscriptions ranging from .D. 1104 to 1154.! 
Hence the time of Kalpa-taru falls in the first half of the 
twelfth centur oes and reference to it as a standard com- 
pilation places Aniruddha about the middle of the same 
century. 
Bhavadeva having been referred to as an authority by Ani- 
ruddha should be earlier than him, i.e. earlier than a.p. 1150. 
Bhavadeva’s anterior limit is fixed by his reference to Visva- 
rupa in the Prayascitta-niru panam. This aoiaia vey is believed 
oldie than the ane quarter of the eleventh cen Bhava- 
deva should be vas later. His time thus falls lt the two 
limits, a.D. net 
act do not permit of a more precise date. 
But the following facts help in coming to a somewhat narrower 
limit of t 
Firstly, the shrine of Ananta-Vasudeva is considered very 
sacred, next in sanctity to the great temple only. These two 
temples only can give the Mahaprasada offerings, whose sacred- 
vara of the great temple.* This injunction makes the sanctity 
of appear very clear. The great veneration for _ 
god_with his mention in such a fairly old work as the Siva 
nee indicates that the shrine must be one of the oldest in 
the town, nearer to A.D. 1025 than to 1150. 
Secondly, in the drama Prabodha-candr-odaya, Canto II, 
Krsna Misra has caricatured the Bengal philosophers under 
the allegorical Ahankadra or Pride. Of the verses put in the 
mouth of Ahankara, one begins with ‘‘ Gauda kingdom is the 
best ; in that the town of Radha is above all comparison ; the 
residence Bhurisresthaka is mp there my father is best.’’ 
This is a clear hit at Sridharacarya whose home was Bhurisrestha 
in south Radha (see p. 341, swpra). te passage, however, 
col ie be a covert attack on some other Bengal man. It runs 
t. 
1 For the inscription of Govindacandra, 10th Piva } 1154, see 
Ep. rye iv, p. 116. 
Catalogos Catalogorum, vol. ii, p. 58. 
8 Ind. Ant., vol. vi, p. 53. 
‘ awlfeeze GIMI ABA Taayah: | 
SAqrawar Fa age Aaataat | Sive-purdina, Bk. TL. 
