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fled to Nepal. Babu Prasanna Kumar Tagore says in his preface to 
the Vivada Cintamani that Hara Simh became Raja of Simroon in 
1323 A.D, after it had been taken by Tughlak Shah. The big tank at 
Darbhanga near the Railway Station known as Harari or Harsayar is 
said to have been excavated at the instance of Hari Simh’s minister. 
The name of Candesvara has, however, come down to us for his 
great works, the Ratnakara and Krtya Cintamani. Mr. Colebrooke 
in his preface to the Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions 
(1798 A.D.) says, ‘The Vivada-Ratnakara was compiled under the super¬ 
intendence of Candesvara’ and so it bears the latter’s name in the same 
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way as Trebonian’s great work that of Justinian. But the learned 
scholars of Mithila have always ascribed the work to Candesvara 
himself who was undoubtedly a scholar of great repute. I may quote 
the following sloka on the point:— 
usjlf^fT^T cTWT I 
C\ si 
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Instances of Rajas and their ministers having been authors or 
commentators of great reputation are not rare in India. It seems to me 
that there is no inherent improbability in the widely accepted belief 
that Candesvara was the actual writer of the books that bear his 
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name. 
Viresvara’s second son Dhiresvara was also a great Pandit. Vidya- 
pati Thakkura the great bard of Mithila and the author of the Purusa- 
parlksa and Durgabhaktitarahgini was his great-grandson. One of 
their living descendants is Badri Nath Thakur who is sixteenth in descent 
from Dhlresvara and thirteenth from Vidyapati. He and his col¬ 
laterals now live at Sanrat. 
Viresvara’s third son, Gunesvara, was also a minister, and his 
son Ramadatta was known as a learned writer. 
