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 [ - § 28 Bhartrihari's Vakyapadiya 4. X refers to Bhartrihari the author of the Vakyapadiya and consequently also to the author of a commentary on the Mahabhashya. Regarding the latter work all that we can say is that it was probably never completed by the author. The Ganaratna-mahodadhi states that the com- mentary extends only to the first three pädas. According to Dr. Bühler fragments of Bhartrihari's comment exist in the Royal Library at Berlin and in the Deccan. If they exist in the Deccan, they have not so far come to light. The Vakyapadiya is a metrical discourse on the phi-! losophy of grammar, distributed into three chapters: the Brahma or Agama-kända, the Vakya-kända, and the Pada or Prakirna-kanda. The chief historical interest of the" work attaches itself to the account given in about seven stanzas, towards the end of the second kända, confirming the statement of the Rajatarñgini about the fate of the Mahabhashya. The passage also contains the earliest reference to the Chandra school, and mentions Baiji, Saubhava, and Haryaksha as grammarians who went before Chandracharya or Chandragomin, and who by their uncritical methods of study contributed not a little to the neglect of the Mahabhäshya during the early centuries of the Christian era. 28. Kaiyyata's Pradipa as marking the end of the second period in the history of the Paniniya school.--Between Bhartri- hari (650 A. D.) and Kaiyyata (the next great writer of the Paniniya school whom we notice and who probably belongs to the eleventh century) we have no names of any consequence to mention. The period was indeed marked by a more or less general grammatical activity, but that 1 Compare com. on Ganaratna- mahodadhi, st. 3,- ET T 2 See preface to Kielberu's od. of 6 [ Sk. Gr.] the Mahabhashya, voi. ii. India: what oan it teach us? p. 352; Indian Antiquary for 1876, p. 245.