Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.287

c7.287

The Manvarthavivṛti of Nārāyaṇasarvajña however, which is remarkable for originality but goes into details only in the case of difficult passages in the text, can hardly be dated later than the 14. century, for this Nārāyaṇa is mentioned already in a work of Rāyamukuṭa composed in 1431; moreover, a Ms. of this commentary was copied in the year 1497. The famous commentary of Kullūkabhaṭṭa, already published several times and probably composed in Benares in the 15. century, has recently been proved to be a piece of plagiarism based on the older work Govindarāja. Rāghavānanda's Manvarthacandrikā mentions the four above-mentioned commentaries, but depends mostly on that of Kullūka; the author who is otherwise known as a philosophical writer can therefore be assigned to the 16. century at the earliest, but cannot have lived later than c. 1650, for the oldest Mss. of his work belong to this period.