1903 ] M. Chakravarti —Eastern Garjga kings of Orissa. 145 
dhavalani [p. 136] apparently speak of Nrsimha’s fight with the Bengal 
Viceroys of the Delhi Sultans. 
Not a single record has yet been found in which Nrsimha Deva II. 
is credited with any war against the Mahomedans, or with any invasion 
of Bengal ; on the other hand the most prominent historical fact re¬ 
garding Nrsimha Deva I. is that his army invaded Bengal up to Gfaura, 
and fought several times successfully with the Bengal Mahomedans. 
Secondly, Nrsimha Deva I. ruled from A.D. 1238-1264 ; so the 
latter part of his rule is fairly well removed from the time of the poet 
Harihara and the king Arjuna to permit the story of Arjuna’e liberal 
gifts to pass on from Malwa to Orissa. Furthermore, the copper¬ 
plate epithets of Nrsimha Deva II. being vague and merely compli¬ 
mentary can hardly be relied upon ; the Sanskrit poets in their pragastis 
generally without discrimination pile one epithet upon the other in 
praise of their patrons. 
Thirdly, the deduction from the date of Mahima Bhatta and his 
vyakti-viveka would be almost unassailable if it can be shown beyond 
doubt that the criticism on Candra 9 ekhara’s stanza was made in the 
vyakti-viveka , that the stanza referred to Bhanu Deva I., and that 
this work Vidyadhara criticised. Otherwise, it is possible to argue 
that the criticism of Candra^khara’s verse was made in a later work, 
or that Vidyadhara criticised some work of Mahima Bhatta other than 
the vyakti-viveka , or that Umd-vallabha is some prince different from 
Bhanu Deva I. Vidyadhara mentions only the name Mahima Bhatta 
and not the work ; and so, too, in the para of the Sdhitya-darpana as 
quoted above. 
Fourthly, in Kdrikd 11 [p. 18] the poet priharsa is praised very 
highly as one who “ gained world-wide fame by making the poem. ” 
Evidently Vidyadhara knew friharsa’s poem well. If so, was the Tika 
on Naisadha-Caritam, known as Sdliitya-vidyadhara, made by him ? 
This Tika is certaiuly older than the Vikrama year 1353 (A.D. 1296) in 
which year Pandit Candu completed his Tika, Naisadha-Dipika at 
Ahmedabad ; cf. his verse beginning with— 
Tikdm yady-api sopapatiracandm vidyadhara nirmame, 
[see Nirnaya-sagara Press Edition, Introd, p. 7,]. From the ex¬ 
tracts given at the footnote of the N.P. edition, the comments in Sdhitya- 
vidyddhara would appear to be more or less rhetorical, which would 
be natural with such an Alarjkarist as the author of the Ekavali. 
If this identification holds good, then between the Tika of Vidya¬ 
dhara in Orissa and a Tika at Ahmedabad, a sufficiently long time should 
be allowed, a longer time ordinarily in the case of a Tika than in the 
case of say, an original poem or Alaqkara work. If 30 or 35 years be 
J. i. 19. 
