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 [-77 Commentators on Sarasvata-prakriya 97 gives his ancestry in the prasasti at the end of his com- mentary, from which we learn that he was a minister to Gaisudin Khilji of Mälva (1469-1500). Puñjaraja seems to have carried on the administration very efficiently collecting round him a band of learned admirers, and indulging in numerous acts of charity and relief. He must have lived in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. He also wrote a work on alankara called Siśuprabodha, and another larger work called Dhvanipradipa.¹ Amritabhārati.--As above pointed out, this commenta- tor mentions Narendranagari as an influencial writer on the Särasvata. Amritabhärati was a pupil of Amalasara- svati, and he bears the title Titanear. His com- mentary is called Subodhikā. Unfortunately all the existing mass. of this commentary contain such a confu- sion as to the name of the author and of his guru, some stating the work to be that of Viśveśvarabdhi, pupil of Advayasarasvati, others that of Satyaprabodhabhaṭṭāraka, pupil of Brahmasagaramuni, that it is hard to get at the truth. As the earliest known ms. of this work is dated Sarhvat 1554, the author must have lived about the last quarter of the fifteenth century. The work is said to have been composed at the holy place of Purushottama: AFARI Kshemendra.-We next take this commentator not be- cause he comes chronologically next but because he, like Amritabhārati, speaks of Narendra. The only personal information we have of him is that he was the pupil of Krishnaśrama and the son of Haribhatta or Haribhadra, a fact sufficient to indicate that he was other than the great Kshemendra of Kaśmir, who lived a full century before Bopadeva. Kshemendra speaks of some predeces- sors of his, and he is in turn quoted by Jagannatha, the 1 See Dr. Bhandarkar's Report for 1882-83, p. 12. 13 [ Sk. Gr. ]