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 40 § 26 - ] Systems of Sanskrit Grammar tion of God Śiva,) we learn that he died 3979 years after the beginning of Kali, which corresponds to 878 A. D. This account of the Bhavishyottara Purana pro- bably does not refer to our Haradatta, seeing that it gives Väsudeva as the name of Haradatta's father.' More- over, Haradatta's Padamañjarī seems to be later than and partly based upon Kaiyyata's Mahabhashya-Pradipa, and we cannot assign to Kaiyyata so early a date as cir.. Soo A. D., which would be necessary if Haradatta is to be put at 878. Probably, therefore, Haradatta belongs to somewhere about 1100 A. D. 27. Bhartriharl's Väkyapadiya-From Padamañjarī, the commentary on the Kāśikā, we go back to the writer who according to Itsing was a contemporary of Jayaditya, one of the authors of the Käsikä; and this is no other than Bhartrihari, the celebrated poet and grammarian whose date of death, according to the Chinese pilgrim, is 650 A. D. It is not necessary for us to consider in this place the different problems suggested by his name. He may or may not have been a king, a brother of a king or the author of the Satakas. Itsing's account unmistakably 1 Mr. Sheshagiri Shatri suggests, loc.cit.,that Haradatta's father may have been a Vaishnava to begin with and may have 2 Compare Padama jart on ii. 1.66 genions but not convincing, and it muet yield to the chrono- logical evidence given below. later changed his name and become a Saiva, just as Hara- datta bimself changed his ori- ginal name of Sndardana into the one which is more general- ly known. Some such change of name may appear to have been hinted at in the intro- ductory stanza- (Benares ed. p 384 11. 5 ff.) with Pradipa on the same place (Nir. Sag. ed. of the Maha- bhusbya, part ii. p. 405). So also compare Padananjarl on ii. 1. 70 (p. 385) with Pradipa on the same place (ibid, p.414). Many more instances can be likewise adduced to show the indebtedness of Padamañjart to the Pradipa. a figata EWER TERHat scare- All this is in-