Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.332

v2.c10.332

The Sārāvalī uses the pūrvakhaṇḍa of Parāśara’s Horāśāstra (between 650 and 750) and refers to Kanaka (fl. ca. 775–800); Kalyāṇavarman is quoted by Govindasvāmin in his Prakaṭārthadīpikā (between 800 and 850). His time, then, is clearly fixed at ca. 800, and he must have been a feudatory of Dharmapāla (ca. 770–810) or Devapāla (ca. 810–850). There is no evidence to connect him with the Varmans who ruled Eastern Bengal from the middle of the eleventh century. See S. Dvivedin [1892] 16–17; P. K. Gode [1934/35]; S. C. Banerji [1939]; S. L. Katre [1944/45]; D. C. Bhattacharyya [1945/46]; A. S. Gopani [1946a]; A. Banerji [1960]; and A. M. Shastri [1964] and [1965a].