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v which the author makes a mention elsewhere : udalkararena paाkriswate (p. 2) 0ur author is generally referred to with the title So71ay], So7८७ut, So71aऽutwar or Co74tir, the last being the Malayalam derivative of the Sanskrit word. A detailed colophon occurring at the end of his B4asya on the Garitapada of the aryabharya, contains a good deal of information about him : इति श्री-कुण्डग्रामजेन गाग्र्यगोत्रेण आश्वलायनेन भाट्टेन केरलसङ्ग्राम-गृहस्थेन श्री-श्वेतारण्यनाथ-परमेश्वरकरुणाधिकरणभूतविग्रहेण जातवेदः पुत्रेण शङ्कराग्रजेन जातवेदोमातुलेन दृग्गणितनिर्मापकपरमेश्वरपुत्र-श्री-दामोदरात्तज्योतिषा मयनेन रवित आत्तवेदान्तशास्त्रेण सुब्रह्मण्यसहृदयेन नीलकण्ठेन सोमसुता विरचितविविध प्रन्थेन दृष्टबहूपपत्तिना स्थापितपरमार्थेन कालेन शङ्कराद्य(?य) निर्मिते श्रीमदार्यभटसिद्धान्त व्याख्याने महाभाष्ये etc. The above-quoted passage informs that Nilakantha belonged to the Gargya gotra, was a follower of the 75walayana-stra of the Rgved and was a Blotta. He was the son of Jatavedas and had a younger brother named Sarikara. He had an uncle Jatavedas by name and a. close friend Subrahmanya. He was a performer of the So710 sacrifice. He had composed several works on astronomy, in which subject he had Imade deep and extensive investigations , a fact which is well borne out by his available works. Some more personal details about Nilakaptha seem to be forth coming from a Malayalam work entitled Laghuramayara. This work describes itself as a work of Rama, son of Nilakantha of the Gargya-gotra and resident of Kupdagrama. Cr, the colophon at its end : इति कुण्डग्रामजेन गाग्र्यकुलतिलकेन श्री-नीलकण्ठात्मजेन आर्याम्बा-गभंसम्भवेन मन्वादिस्मृतिमर्मज्ञ-संस्कृत द्राविड-भाषा-त्रय-पारीणस्य दक्षिणामूर्तिनाम्नोऽप्रजेन रामेण विरचितं श्रीरामायणं प्रबन्धम् । 1. f, etut sarva7 4paristad 2. 4Bh. Garita, Ed., 7SS, No. 101, (Trivandrum, 1930), p. 180 Generally the term Gargya is affixed to his name in referenccs. 3. Ed. P.R. Menon, Thificat1 Karyalayam, Chittoor, 2nd ed11, 193! (Grar/tdhval, No. 3, Tuोंeatu।