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work in those days travelled slowly outside its province. I am disposed 
to putVidyakara to the first quarter of the 15th century or a little 
earlier. 
In the absence of the full texts it is unsafe to pass auy remarks. 
Vidyakara was a Vajapeyi Brahmin, i.e. t one who had performed the 
expensive vajapeya-yajna. He seems to have been well read in the 
Smrtis. 
2. The second work f uddhi-Candrika is better known and has 
been printed. It is a small work and has been placed among the Pad- 
dhatis chiefly on account of its time and absence of a critical spirit. 
Its author who calls himself Kalidasa, was a Cayani Pandit and thus 
speaks of his work in the very first line :— 
Translation :—The moon among the learned by name fri-Kalidasa 
who is the depositary of nectars in the f astras of Manu and others, 
spread out ( i.e ., composed) the fuddhi-Candrika, for removing the dark¬ 
ness in men’s eyes in matters of agauca (or death and birth impurities), 
thus swelling (with gladness) the sea of the learned. (The author com¬ 
pares himself with the moon which is the depositary of nectars, which 
removes darkness, and which swells the sea with tides). 
The work ends thus :— 
The title Cayani Pandit is curious; Cayani meaning at Puri, the 
best, the most learned. 
The puddhi-Candrika is pretty old. Its author is referred to in 
the Acarapradipa 3 and hence it cannot be later than the 2nd half 
of the 15th century. The compressed nature of the book does not 
admit of any quotations from other works. I have found only one 
reference, viz. f to Laksmidhara,^ belongs to the tenth century. Prom 
geneial leasons I am inclined to think that the author was contempora- 
. 1 A variant reading is <s 
2 “ 5TIfne?i^T.. 
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