History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s87.16

v1.c6.s87.16

for calculating ravi-saṁkrānti he takes śake 1489 as the basis (i. e. 1567 A. D.). So that Tattva was composed just about that year. A ms. of the Chāndoga-śrāddha-tattva was copied in *śake* 1497 (1575-76 A. D.)¹⁰²⁵ and a ms. of the Maṭha-pratiṣṭhā-tattva was copied in *śake* 1498 (i. e. 1576-77 A. D.).¹⁰²⁶ Therefore he must have flourished before 1575. Thus he flourished between 1490 and 1570 and his literary activity, which must have been spread over a long period if we consider the number of his works, lies between 1520-1570. Vide an interesting discussion about his date in JASB for 1915, pp. 354-357 by M M. Chakravarti who places Raghunandana between 1510-1565 A. D.