History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s57.21

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Aufrecht (II. p. 50 and I. p. 236) credits Vijñāneśvara with a bhāṣya on Triṁśat-ślokī, a work in thirty Sragdharā stanzas on *aśauca*. This work together with the commentary was printed in *pothi* size at Benares in *saṁvat* 1918 (1861-62 A. D.). The printed text contains⁶⁴⁷ the same colophon at the end and date as the D. C. ms. No. 217 of 1879-80, which was copied in *saṁvat* 1711 *Caitra* (i. e. April 1655 A. D.). It is extremely doubtful, however, whether Vijñāneśvara wrote a bhāṣya on the Triṁśat-ślokī. In the bhāṣya Vijñāneśvara and the Mitākṣarā are cited by name.⁶⁴⁸ The manner of referring to them rather suggests that the commentary on the Triṁśat-ślokī was composed by some person other than Vijñāneśvara, who, however, drew largely on the Mit. There is a ms. of the Triṁśat-ślokī with a commentary in the Bhau Daji collection which is ascribed to Hemādri on the cover (vide BBRAS. cat. vol. II. p. 209, No. 667).