History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s96.24

v1.c6.s96.24

Mr. Govinda Das says that a ms. of the ācārakāṇḍa of the Bālambhaṭṭī in the Benares palace library is dated *saṁvat* 1831 (i. e. 1774-75 A. D.). The I. O. cat. (pp. 458-459) notices that Bālambhaṭṭa was about 80 years old when Colebrooke entrusted the Dharmaśāstrasaṁgraha to him about 1800 A. D. Besides both Bālambhaṭṭa and his father Vaidyanātha were the pupils of Nāgojibhaṭṭa. The ms. of the Upākṛtitattva (Stein’s Jammu cat. p. 302) is dated *saṁvat* 1848 i. e. 1791-92 A. D. and the ms. of the Laghubhūṣaṇakānti of Bālambhaṭṭa’s pupil is dated *saṁvat* 1856 (i. e. 1799-1800 A. D.). Hence it follows that Bālambhaṭṭa must have flourished between 1730 and 1820 A. D. Mr. Govinda Das says that Bālambhaṭṭa died at the age of 90 and gives his dates as 1740 to 1830 A. D. (p. 29 of Mr. Gharpure’s ācāra section of Bālambhaṭṭī at the end).