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(1) Dr. Peterson, in his introduction to the Subhashi. tavali, maintains (p. 85)that Marnmata cannot be placed later than 1294 A. D (the date of the commentary Jayanti on the Kavyaprakasa) (2) Miss Duff, in her “Chronology of India. " (p. 189), refers to a comnmentaly on the Kavyapraka sa by Narahari (son of Mallinatha), born 1242 A. D. (3) Professor Macdonell (History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 434) holds that Mammata lived about 1100 A. D. (4) Bhimasena-Dikshita in his commentary (Sudhasa- gura) on the Kavyaprakasa, following the tradition, states thati Mommatra and his brothers, Kayyata (author of the Bhashya- pradipa) and Uvvata (the commentator on the Vajasaneyl- Sanhita), were contemporaneous with King Bhoja (996 - 1051 A, D), (5) Bhatta-Vamanacharya, in this learned introduction to El.c Karyaprakasa, holls (p 3) that Bhimasena's statement 15 not reliable, masnmuch as Mammatta refers to Bhola. in his Kavyaprakasa (Canto X)-- " भोजनृपतेस्तत्त्यागलीलायितम्'-and must therfore have been later than Bhoja , and his young brother, Urvata, could not at all have been a conteniporary of Bhoju_He therefore dashelieves Bhimasena's theory,and does not consider Uvvata as the brother of. Mammata (the anthor of the Kavyaprakasa) He ascribes fammata to the end of the eleventh century, placing him between Bhoyaraja (996- 1051) and Manikya-chandra, the commentator on the Kavya- prakasa (1160 A. D.). It will be seen from the foregoing that the date of Mammata is yet a matter of uncertainty, and the question deserves a detailed discussion here. The arguments of Bhatta-Vamanacharya are too weak and untenable. He presumes that Mammata should be later than Bhoja (because of the reference to him in the Kavyaprakasa), and bases his arguments on that presum],- tion. But this reference only goes to prove that Mammata