History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.286

v4.c64.286

शरभङ्ग—It occurs in the Nālandā plate of Devapāla (E. I. XVII at 321) and in Chamba Ins. No. 15 at p. 166 (where it is read as ‘sarobhaṅga’. Vide Vogel p. 123 and ‘Indian Culture’ vol. VII p. 305 at p. 309. Has the word anything to do with the words ‘śarayantra’ and ‘śarayantrī’? The latter was a title bestowed in Mithilā upon a very learned man who faced the ordeal of answering satisfactorily all questions on any śāstra put to him by learned ācāryas and also the questions put by common people. Vide a paper ‘Declaration of śarayantrī’, contributed to the All India Oriental Conference at Benares (in 1943) by Pandit Ramānātha Jha of Darbhanga.