History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t2.58

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¹³⁸⁷ काम्यमध्यत्र मरणम्। अत्र तु सर्ववर्णानामधिकारः । गङ्गावा. p 305 and तीर्थचि. p. 47. It is a most remarkable thing that the treatment of प्रयागमरण in both these works is word for word the same, except that the तीर्थचि. quotes the verses न वेदवचना० from the पद्मपुराण while the गङ्गावा quotes them from the मत्स्य. It appears probable that the तीर्थचि० borrows from the गङ्गावा. since वाचस्पति appears to have been a younger contemporary of Vidyāpati who helped विश्वासदेवी in composing गङ्गावा. Both were closely connected with the several kings and queens of the कामेश्वर dynasty of Mithilā and it is difficult to assert with confidence who borrows from whom. In New I A. vol VII. at p. 53 Prof. G. C Basu while describing a newly found ms of a work called व्याडिभक्तितरङ्गिणी ascribed in the colophon to विद्यापति states that that work mentions the द्वैतनिर्णय of वाचस्पति. So it is not unlikely that विद्यापति helped विश्वासदेवी by taking a part from the तीर्थचिन्तामणि of वाचस्पति Vide H. of Dh. vol. I pp. 739-740, Journal of Dept. of Letters, Calcutta University, vol. XVI, New I. A. vol. VII pp. 49 ff, I. H. Q vol. XX (1944) pp. 211 ff for the date and works of विद्यापति and H. of Dh vol. I. pp. 404-405 for the date of वाचस्पति