Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.s3.2

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¹ The dates of Nannaya Bhaṭṭa and Ātharvaṇācārya can easily be fixed. Nannaya Bhaṭṭa translated the first part of the Mahābhārata into Telugu for Vishṇuvardhana who was Rāmānujācārya's chief convert, and therefore lived in the middle of the 11th century ["Cyclic Table" by C. P. Brown; *Madras Journal*, x., p. 52; Brown's "Telugu Grammar" (2nd ed.), p. i.]. Ātharvaṇācārya is generally supposed to have preceded Nannaya; but this cannot be the case, as he twice cites Hemacandra by name ("Triliṅgaçabdānuçāsana", i., 5; iii., 13 of the Madras MS.). Hemacandra was probably born in 1088 A. D. and died in 1172 A. D. (*Bombay Journal*, x., p. 224); Ātharvaṇācārya must, therefore, have written about fifty years later than Nannaya, and was probably a Jain rival of this Brahman.