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subject. Niścala repeatedly brackets together Haricandra and Jejjata; the former's name always precedes that of Jejjata. 291 Ad Ca.Sū.7.45–50. 292 Ad Cakradatta, sneha 6. 293 Harīścandra's anteriority to Vāgbhaṭa is accepted by Atrideva (ABI 226–227) and R. Śāstrī (1977: 650, 659–661). B. Rama Rao (1992: 299) presumes that Harīścandra and Vāgbhaṭa were contemporaries because they do not refer to each other. 294 Vijayarakṣita refers to Bhaṭṭāraharicandra's exposition on the tantrayuktis in his comment ad Mādhavanidāna 1.4. 295 The Suśrutasamhitā and the works ascribed to Vāgbhaṭa also discuss the tantrayuktis at the end. However, Śrīdāsapaṇḍita discusses the tantrayuktis at the beginning of his commentary on the Aṣṭāngahṛdayasamhitā. Cakrapāṇidatta's reference to Haricandra in the Siddhīsthāna of the Carakasamhitā (Si.12.41cd–45ab) does not prove that Haricandra commented on Dṛḍhabala's text. Haridattaśāstrin (*Śrī Bhaṭṭāraka Haricandra, Āyurveda Sammelana Patrikā 3, 4, 20–27) regarded Haricandra as anterior to Dṛḍhabala, but G.N. Mukherjee (1934a: 411–412), B. Rama Rao (1992: 299) and P.V. Sharma (AVI 20) tend to the view that he is later than Dṛḍhabala. 296 Ad Ca.Ci.24.3–5. 297 A study of all the quotations from Haricandra's commentary may throw more light on this point. 298 G.N. Mukherjee (1934a: 406–414) accepts Maheśvara's genealogy and places Haricandra in the first half of the tenth century. Compare E. Haas (1876a: 647–650), who regards Maheśvara's work as unauthentic. 299 Sāhasāṅka is identified as Candragupta II Vikramāditya by Atrideva (1978: 42), R. Śāstrī (1977: 659–661), V. Śukla (I, 48), and Yādavaśarman (upodghāta to ed. z of the Carakasamhitā, 13), as one of his successors, living in the fifth century, by the editors of the Gulabkunverba edition of the Carakasamhitā (I, 114) and Haridattaśarman (upodghāta to ed. ee of the Carakasamhitā, pages dha-na), as Yaśodharman of Mālwā, who defeated the Hūṇa chief Mihirakula, by P.V. Sharma (AVI 204; 1970a: 83–84), as Narendradeva of Bengal by G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 32–36 and 456), and as Śrīcandradeva of Kanauj by H.H. Wilson (1984: III, 215–216; see V.V.S. Sastry and A.N. Pandey, 1975: 3, and C. Vogel, 1965: 14–15). 300 See V.V.S. Sastry and A.N. Pandey (1975): 2–3. 301 Their identity (the Jain author Haricandra and the author of the inscription excepted) is accepted by Atrideva (ABI 175–176), D.Ch. Bhattacharyya (1947b: 150), the Gulabkunverba edition of the Carakasamhitā (I, 112–114), Haridattaśarman (upodghāta to ed. ee of the Carakasamhitā, page dha), P.V. Sharma (AVI 204–205), R. Śāstrī (1977: 659–661), and V. Śukla (I, 48). The medical author Haricandra is earlier than the seventh century if he is the same as the Haricandra referred to in Bāṇa's Harṣacarita. 302 P.V. Sharma (AVI 205; 1970a: 84) is of the opinion that Haricandra, who was a sun-worshipper (according to the maṅgala of his commentary), may have lived in Ujjayinī, where many temples dedicated to Sūrya were found. Atrideva (ABI 176) and R. Śāstrī (1977: 659–660) mention Ujjayinī as Haricandra's place of residence because Rājaśekhara connects Haricandra with Viśālā, i.e., Ujjayinī, in his Kāvyamīmāṃsā (10.22; quoted by R. Śāstrī, 1977: 660), a work that also mentions king Sāhasāṅka of Ujjayinī (10.2; see Winternitz III, 642). G.N. Mukherjee (1934a: 406) states that Maheśvara's Sāhasāṅkacarita mentions Haricandra as the royal physician to Sāhasāṅka, king of Gādhipura (Kanyakubja according to Hemacandra's Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 4.40, ed. 1964; Kānyakubja according to N.N. Bhattacharyya, 1991: 129, and N. Dey, 1979: 60; identified as Gazipur by others). R. Śāstrī (1977: 650, 660) regards Haricandra as the royal physician to Candragupta II Vikramāditya, and interprets the Vetālabhaṭṭa, enumerated among the nine gems at his court in the Jyotirvidābharaṇa, as referring to him.