The History of Indian Literature c8.403

c8.403

† [They are, however, incomplete, in part exceedingly so.] The earliest MS. hitherto known of the *vyákhyá* of Yájnikadeva is dated *saṃvat* 1639.—I have given the names of these commentators in the order in which they are cited by one another; no doubt there were other commentators also preceding Yaśoga [Yaśogopi]. In the Fort William Catalogue, under No. 742, a commentary by Mahídhara is mentioned, but I question provisionally the correctness of this statement. [The correct order is: Karka, Pitṛibhúti, Yaśogopi, Bhartṛiyajna. They are so cited by Ananta, who himself seems to have lived in the first half of the sixteenth century, provided he be really identical with the Śrímadanantákhyacháturmásyayájin, whom Náráyaṇa, the author of the Muhúrtamártaṇḍa, mentions as his father; see my Catalogue of the Berlin MSS., No. 879. Deva on i. 10. 13 quotes a Náráyaṇabháshya; might not Ananta's son be its author?]