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Navadvlpa. All these learned men fell more or less under the 

 influence of Caitanya, the Vaisnava-Reformer of Navadvlpa 

 in the early part of the 15th century. 



From all these, the statement of Aufrecht in p. 574, that 

 Vidyanivasa, the father of Rudra and Visvanatha, was the son 

 of Bhavananda, proves erroneous ; and the source of the error 

 is traced out in No. 2938 of Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts, 

 First Series, in which Rudra Tarkavagisa says that he was 

 commenting upon a work by his grandfather, Bhavananda Sid- 

 dhanta-Vagisa. So Aufrecht has evidently confounded Rudra 

 Tarkavagisa, the grandson of Bhavananda, with Rudra Nyaya- 

 vacaspti, the grandson of Vidyanivasa. 



In pages 528 and 529 Aufrecht makes two entries as 

 Rudra Nyayavacaspati Bhattacarya and Rudra Nyayavacas- 

 pati. The first is a Nyaiyayika and the second a poet. The 

 first is the son of Vidyanivasa and the grandson of Bhavananda, 

 and the second, son of Vidvavilasa. I believe that, with the 

 facts before us, these two entries should be made into one. 

 For the poet of " Bhramara-Duta " says, that his grandfather 



was Vidyavacaspati, and not Bhavananda ; and we know 

 that he was both a poet and a Naiyayika. Aufrecht gets 

 Vidyavilasa apparently from the printed text of Bhavavilasa 

 in the Kavyamata series. But the scribes of Western India 

 often make strange mistakes in copying Bengali names, 

 instances of which are found in abundance in the printed text 

 of Vivadarnavasetu, published in Bombay. In the case of 

 Bhavavilasa, however, Bhandarkar mentions two manuscripts in 

 which Vidyanivasa is the name of the author's father and not 

 Vidyavilasa. Rudra Nyayavacaspati, the author of Bhava- 

 vilasa, written to please Manasinha's son, Bhavasinha, is no 

 other than the elder brother of Visvanatha. 



