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∗ The three great scholiasts of this period whom we propose to treat in this section are Medhātithi, Vijñāneśvara, and Aparārka. The first is the author of the oldest extant commentary of the Manusaṃhitā, and he is believed to have lived not later than in the tenth century A. D. (Vide Bühler, S. B. E., Vol. XXV, Introduction, p. cxxi). The second wrote the famous commentary on Yājñavalkya called the Mitākṣarā which is to this day the text-book of all schools of Hindu law except that of Bengal. He is said to have flourished in the latter half of the eleventh century A. D. (Vide West and Bühler's *Digest*, p. 17). The third author Aparārka who wrote a fresh commentary on Yājñavalkya is said to have been a king of Western India and to have reigned between 1140 and 1186 A. D. (Vide Mayne, *Hindu Law and Usage*, seventh edition, p. 28).