25yer=f1a1taye Latur - curses-after Fasara . Tyere more or less contemporaries. T10 Clalue of Abhinavra guptapada, the author of Lochana', has been fixed at 991 A. D.* Hence that date may apply to the age of Mahimabhatta. Again, if the great poet Syamala described as the teacher of Mahimabhatta. in a passage at the end of this book is not different from the Syarnmala referred to by Kshermendia thus --- “न तु यथा भट्टश्यामलस्य” in Auchityavicharacharcha (औचित्यविचारचर्च) and thus---
- विपरीता यथा भक्ष्यासलस्य” in Suyrittatilaka (सुवृत्ततिलक) who fourishi-
ed in the 11th centutty then 1 1s quite perfinent to cayav the Inference that the pupil of Syamala should have flouished in the 10th century. The age of Meltimabhatta 18 also cliscusse by Mr M. 1. Narasimha Iyengar at PP (0) -- {09 113 the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain for Janualy 1908 where he has ai rived at a similar conclusion, on othe grounds :-- | * Coming Low to the author's age, we find in the Vyakti- Viveka abundant quctations frorin and references to several yorks and authors I have been at great pains to trace the several stanzas quoted in the york to theti 011ginal sources, and I find that the following are the most often cited .-- | Aatha07. | Jyons (1) Kalidasa Sakuntala, Raghuvamsa, Vikramorvasiya, Kurmara-Sambhava (2) Bharav1 Kiratarjuniya (3) Sr: Harsha Nagananda (4) Bhartriha11 Vakyapadiya (5) Magha Sisupalayadaa (5) Rajasekhara Balarainmayana, (7) Bhavabhuta UttaraPanachrita, Malatimadhav (8) Bhatbanarayana eniSamhara Ratnakara Hatat1Jaya.. (10) Anandavai jhana Dhvanyaloka.
- See Introduction to ध्वन्यालोक,
1. See p, 125. 2. See p. 44.
