History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s83.28

v1.c6.s83.28

This Vācaspati who flourished in Mithilā in the latter half of the fifteenth century is very often confounded with other authors bearing the same name. The great philosopher Vācaspati who was author of the Bhāmatī on the Śārīrakabhāṣya of Śaṅkara and of several other commentaries on other systems of philosophy flourished in the first half of the 9th century as he wrote his Nyāyasūcinibandha in 898 (most probably of the Vikrama era).⁹⁸⁸ There was another (Candraśekhara) Vācaspati who wrote the Smṛtisārasaṁgraha (cat. of Calcutta San. College mss. vol. II, p. 181, No. 203) and flourished in the first half of the 18th century.