A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.735

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1697 V. Śukla (I, 239) records that he was born in 1260/61. G.B. Palsule (Intr. to the ed. of the Kavikalpadruma, 33) advances some arguments in favour of the view that Vopadeva was born some decades earlier, about 1230–40: since Vopadeva refers to king Rāmacandra (1271–1309) in the introduction to the Muktāphala, he probably wrote that work during the reign of this king; the period of composition of the Muktāphala can be narrowed down to about 1275, because Hemādri wrote his commentary on that work during the early years of Rāmacandra's reign, and refers to Vopadeva's own commentary on it; if it be granted that Vopadeva his works on the Bhāgavatapurāṇa not before he was about forty years old, the period of his birth would be fixed as about 1230–40.