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 § 36-] Systems of Sanskrit Grammar Kshirasvamin. A Käśmirian tradition makes him teacher to king Jayapida, which brings him into the eighth century. This conflicts with the fact that Kshirasvamin quotes Bhoja, and in so far as he is quoted by Vardhamana in the Ganaratnamahodadhi, this settles his date, which is roughly 1050 A. D. Besides the Dhätuvritti Kshirasvamin wrote five other works: i. commentary on the Amarakosha, ii. funct, iii. auf referred to in the Dhätuvritti (which is more usually known as fareffoft), iv. sa mentioned by Devaraja in his Niruktanirva- chana, and v. Ganavritti referred to by Vardhamana in his Ganaratnamahodadhi, a work presently to be mentioned. In the introduction to the Dhātuvritti Kshirasvamin notes that several people, including the great Chandra, had essayed before him to write about the roots, but not always successfully. The Chandra here referred to must be Chandragomin, the founder of the Chandra school, whose Dhätupätha was subsequently incorporated by Durgasimha with the Katantra grammar. About the nature of the contents of the Dhätuvritti Kshirasvamin tells us that one can find therein : gazteatestásná nomi dzandgatvaETÀ; KỎ T | fagärm utāraiadataka faggia | Of other works of Kshirasvāmin it is not necessary to say much in this place. We next turn our attention to the Madhviya-Dhātu- vritti, which deals with the same subject and which was written by Madhava or Sāyaṇa, the great Vedic Bhashya- kāra (1350 A.D). Sayaņa also mentions numerous workers in the same field whose labours he partly utilised. Among fr I See Introduction to Mr. Oka's edition of Kshirasvamin's com. on Amars. 2 Comparer: far: 11