The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.235

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review all the contemporary schools of philosophy, including the *brah-madvaita* doctrine :”¹ this person is mentioned, with a good deal of flourish, in the *Sravana-Belgola* epitaph of Mallishêṇa,² which represents him as professing, to a prince of Karahāṭaka (Karaḍ, in the Sātārā District), that he had made a missionary tour to Pāṭaliputra (Paṭna in Behīr), Mālwa, Sindh, Ṭhakka (the Pañjāb), Kāñchī, and Vaidisa (Bēsnagar): After him came Akalaṅka, Akalaṅkadēva, or Akalaṅkachandra, who wrote the *Aṣṭaśatī*, the earliest commentary on the *Āptamīmāṁsā*; the *Sravana-Belgola* epitaph mentions him specially, as defeating the Buddhists in disputation. Then came Vidyānanda, apparently known also as Pātrakēsarin, who wrote the *Āptamīmāṁsālaṅkāra* or *Aṣṭasahasrī*, the second and more exhaustive commentary on the *Āptamīmāṁsā*, and who tells us that he followed the *Aṣṭaśatī* as his guide. Then followed Māṇikyanandin, author of the *Parīkṣāmukha*, in which he mentions Samantabhadra, Akalaṅka, and Vidyānanda. After him came Prabhāchandra, author of the *Prameyakamalamārtaṇḍa*, which is the earliest commentary on Māṇikyanandin’s *Parīkṣāmukha*, and of the *Nyāyakumudachandrōdaya*, which is a commentary on the *Laghiyastraya* of Akalaṅka: he tells us that Akalaṅka was his teacher; and his epitaph is at *Sravana-Belgola*.³ After him came Jinasēna, author of the Jain *Harivaṁśa*, of which a first recension was completed in A. D. 783-84; in the time of Gōvinda III., and of a portion of the *Ādi-Purāṇa*, which was part of the Jain *Mahā-Purāṇa*: in his *Ādi-Purāṇa*, he mentions Akalaṅka, Prabhāchandra, and Pātrakēsari-(Vidyānanda); and in another of his works, the *Pārśvābhyudaya*, he describes himself as the *Paramaguru* or chief preceptor of Amōghavarsha I.,⁴ whom, in the same passage, he mentions with the paramount title of *Paramēśvara*,—thus shewing that he lived on into the actual reign of that king, *i.e.* until, at any rate, A. D. 814-15.⁵ And finally there came Jinasēna’s pupil, Guṇabhadra, who completed the *Ādi-Purāṇa* and wrote the *Uttara-Purāṇa*, or second part of the *Mahā-Purāṇa*, which he finished in A. D. 897, in the reign of Amōghavarsha’s successor, Kṛishṇa II. As regards the period of these writers,—their latest limit is deter-