History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s79.12
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s79.12
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v1.c6.s79.12
It is further said that Madanasiṁha called⁹⁴⁸ together four learned men, viz., Ratnākara, Gopīnātha, Viśvanātha and Gaṅgādhara-bhaṭṭa and entrusted the composition of the digest to them. The colophons⁹⁴⁹ at the end of the Śāntyuddyota in the Deccan College says that it was composed by Viśvanātha, a resident of Benares and son of Bhaṭṭapūjya, a Śrīmālī Gurjara (Brāhmaṇa). There is a similar colophon at the end of the Prāyaścittoddyota noticed by M. M. Haraprasad Sastri.