Vol. VIII, No. 9.) Bhatta Bhavadeva of Bengal. 347 
[N.S.] 
him the cpr ey the Bana phallus named SomeSvara, worshipped 
by all kings. 
J on composed the poem in the seventeenth year 
of the king Prataparudradeva, or about a.D. 1512-3, before 
which time must have been current this tradition connecting 
Bhavadeva with Udyota-keSari. Udyota-keSari’s date is as 
yet uncertain. But he must be older than Coraganga who 
conquered Orissa probably in the first decade of his reign 
(A.D. 1076-86).” and founded the Ganga rule in Orissa. As 
Udyota-keSari from his inscriptions appears to have been him- 
self a powerful ruler, he evidently preceded Coraganga by many 
ears. According to this tradition, therefore, Bhavadeva’s 
time falls in the eleventh century, possibly in its first half. It 
would not be safe, however, to put much value on traditions 
reported several centuries after. 
On the whole it would be reasonable to conclude that 
Bhavadeva flourished in the eleventh century, and that he 
erected the Ananta-Vasudeva temple before the advent of the 
angas. e data available, though very scanty, also indi- 
cates that in ahh period Radha was the centre of considerable 
literary activity, specially in ‘rituals and philosophy. Sridhara 
in the tenth and Bhavadeva in the eleventh are two scholars, of 
whom Radha and for that matter any province in India may well 
be proud. Yet they are only solitary rocks which tower above 
the sea of oblivion on account of special circumstances, while 
the other learned men crowding round them have been en- 
gulphed in the floods of time. 
REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING PAPER BY MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA 
HARAPRASAD SASTRL 
The writer discredits the accounts of the match-makers 
the 11th century a.p. He also finds another argument against 
the ‘‘ rather silly stories, that the king Adisira had to import 
learned Brahmanas from anouj because he could not find 
learned Brahmanas in Bengal in the 11th centu 
Thirty years ago the theory was that the Brahmanas were 
brought to Bengal by Adisura either in 999 Samvat, that is, 
943 A.pD., orin Vedavansikasake, that is, 954 Saka or 1032 A a. 
But since then careful study of old manuscripts of earlier 
| eglaamiiawe gaia ay sfasatear MARTA \ 
t sugee aHaalat aw: w Aa alana 
manta: i ¢ o 
2 J.A.S.B., 1898, p, 329. 
