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3. Of old commentaries on the Law-book of Yājñavalkya we have four.² The oldest is the Mitaksharā (Mitākṣarā) written by Vijñāneśvara (*Vijñāneśvara*), who lived about 1100 A. D. A near contemporary of his is Aparārka or Aparāditya, who wrote his commentary about 1150 A. D. Rather later comes Śūlapāṇi in the fifteenth, and Mitra Miśra in the seventeenth century A. D.¹ The latter two commentators follow the lead of the Mitaksharā, while Aparārka, in many points, takes a line of his own; but all four comment on a text which was identical with the published recension.