1897.] M. M. Chakravarti —Language and Literature of Orissa. 339 
The introductory verses supply the following genealogical chart up 
to the seventh generation 
1. Mjtyumjaya. 
(Kautsya Gotra.) 
I 
son 
2. Gopinatha M^ra. 
sons 
3. Jale^a Narayana 
| _ (died in his 16th year.) 
4. Narasimha four other sons. 1 2 
5. Devananda Balabhadra four other sons. 1 
Vamadeva 6. Dharadhara six other sons. 1 
1 
. 1 
Vighn§ 9 vara 7. Murari eight other sons. 1 
8. Nrsimha Vajapeyi, 
the author, who studied 
under his uncle Vighne^ara. 
Nrsimha’s date is not known. But his reference to Madhavacarya® 
brings him down to the fifteenth century. The posterior limit is fixed 
by his work being quoted by Raghunandana. 3 Raghunandana was 
contemporaneous with Caitanya and read with him under the Pandit 
Vasudeva Sarvabbauma. 4 Raghunandana consequently flourished in 
the beginning of the 16th century, and Nrsimhacarya must be older. 
From the scanty quotations by Raghunandana, I infer that he did not 
precede him by any long interval. Nrsimha may therefore be fairly 
1 The names of these sons are given in the verse, but are not given here. 
The introductory lines are quoted in original in the Appendix. 
2 See Acarapradlpa MS., 
8 Raghunandana’s Astavirinja-tattvani faffcpFBf P* 6* ,f STCf^T- 
" and a g ain P- 86 “ ” 
* Cf. Babu Akshay Kumar Dutt’s Introduction to the Hindu Religious sects 
(Bengali) Yol. I, p. 178 note. # . . . 
