A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s5.t2.1

v3.c44.s5.t2.1

Various suggestions have been forward regarding the period in which Lolimbarāja lived and the dates of composition of his works. Some authorities are of the opinion that the author of the Harivilāsa was a contemporary of king Bhoja. 508 The untenability of this view has been demonstrated by B. Tripāṭhī. 509 The arguments brought forward by P.K. Gode 510 in trying to establish that the author of the Harivilāsa was different from and lived about thirty years earlier than the Lolimbarāja who composed the other works have also been invalidated by B. Tripāṭhī, 511 thus proving that one and the same Lolimbarāja wrote the four medical works, the Ratnakalācarita and the Harivilāsakāvya. This Lolimbarāja is assigned to the period A.D. 1310–1370 by P. Hymavathi, 512 to 1538–1608 by B. Tripāṭhī, 513 to 1578–1648 by L.R. Pāṅgārkar, 514 to about 1625 by P.V. Sharma, 515 and to the seventeenth century by V.L. Bhāve. 516