338 M. M. Chakra varti —Language and Literature of Orissa . [No. 4, 
This commentator is one of the oldest, as will be seen further on,^ and 
is at least three hundred years old. As ^ambhukara has been quoted 
by him as an authority, a considerable interval must have elapsed. I 
shall be far from wrong therefore in putting (^ambhukara s date to 
the close of the 15th century. 
4. In his list Hunter mentions another Paddhati, 8 viz., the Kar- 
maijga-padd1 1 ati of one Ramacandra Vajapeyi. I have not seen this 
Work. According to Hunter’s informant its date is about 400 years old— 
a not improbable date for it, if it be really a Paddliati. r lhe author was 
a Vajapeyi, and these Vajapeyis belonged almost exclusively to the 
Puri District and were generally well read in £rutis and Smytis. 
(b). Having treated all the known Paddhatikaras of Orissa, I now 
take up the other sub-class of Smrtic works, the commentaries. 
1. Of the existing commentaries the earliest appears to be the 
Acarapradipa of Narasimha Vajapeyi. Of this I have seen two MSS., 
and the one which I shall refer herein was copied not less than sixty 
years ago. 8 This MS. consists of 197 folios with six lines on each 
page. It begins in verse describing the genealogy of the author 
and at the end of each division ends thus or in a nearly similar line 
” (MSS. Folio 120). 
The introductory verses are in 21 lines and give an interesting 
account of the author’s ancestors and their studies. The lines show 
that in the mediaeval period (13th to 15th century) Smrti and Dar^ana 
were fairly well cultivated by the Oriya Brahmins. The author’s 
ancestors composed several works such as Sat-Samaya, f uddhi-Mukta- 
vali and Samksipta-paririkavarttika. They appear to be now lost, if 
not lying scattered in some of the Brahmin villages round about Puri. 
For these and similar other works, it would be desirable to make a 
diligent search among the small libraries belonging to the Sasani 
Brahmins of that district. 
leaf and again TOfrf ” ? als o 
Divyasimha Mahapatra’s Qraddha-dipa “ 
1 See infra, p. 341. ^ 
* Hunter’s Orissa, Vol. II, App. IX, pp. 207-8. 
8 On the last page there is a note to the effect that the MS. whs sold on Sana 
1252 Kanya 29th for Company rupee Re. 1—4-0 by one Mukte 9 vara Dasa to Krsna 
AgnihStn, the grand-father of the present owner. The sale thus took place 52 years 
ago, and the MS must be still older. 
