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 [ - § 73 72. History of the Kätantra school in Kägmir.-In Kasmir the school had a slightly varied development. The Sūtra- patha received there was, as we saw, considerably different from that known to Durgasimha; and we can hence conclude that the Käśmirian Pandits got familiar with the works of Durgasimha much later. Until then they busied themselves with writing original commen- taries and digests on the Kätantra which, as Dr. Büller observes, has been the grammar of the Käśmirians from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Only a few of their works in Mss. have so far been available. There is among others a work called the Balabodhini by Bhatta Jagaddhara with a Nyasa upon it by a writer called Ugrabhüti, who, if identical with his name-sake who was a teacher of grammar to Anandapala and whose book (as Alberini says) was made fashionable in Käśmir by liberal donations from the royal pupil to the Pandits, must be placed in the latter part of the tenth century,¹ Another rather well-known book is the Laghuvritti by Chhichhubhatta, which perhaps belongs to about the same time. Of later and less important books there is quite a number. The modern popular books of grammar in Käśmir are based on the Katantra. Sarasvata School The Sarasvata School 73. The Sarasvata school: Its date. The origin of the Sarasvata school of grammarians cannot be put down to a date very much earlier than 1250 A. D., when Bopadeva the author of the Mugdhabodha flourished, seeing that he 1 See Vincent Smith's Early His tory of India, Third edition, . 382, note. 91 The Deccan College Me. of the work brought over by Bühler in 1875-76 contains at the ead the following colophon: stand (?) &c., which perlaps stands for Saka 10371115 a. D.