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Introduction
XV
and the answer to the problem connected with the
usage kukṣimbhara in the context is given in the
Tattvabodhini, which is referred to by our author
by the expression ity eke. There are certain other
places too where the S.K.U. seems to be following
the Tattvabodhini.
Jñanendrabhikṣu (or Jñänendrasarasvati) is said
to have been a Teacher, in the Vedānta, of the
father of Jagannatha, who is assigned to the period
between 1590 and 1665 A.D. There is no reference
to Jagannatha, as far as I can search, in the S.K.U.,
and this absence of reference need not mean any-
thing. Jagannatha did not have any systematic
discussion about the correctness or otherwise of
linguistic uses in literary works, with which our
author is mainly concerned here. The absence of
any reference, therefore, to Jagannatha need not
mean an earlier date for our author. There is no
mention of Nägeśa or his works in the S.K.U. But
in one place there is similarity of views of our author
and of Nageśa (See Note 143). Our author was
probably a contemporary of Nageśa, and belonged
to the time by which Nageśa's works had not yet
travelled to the other parts of the country. Though
our author refers to some Paribhāṣās (See pp. 51, 52
and 53) there is no reference to the Paribhāṣendu-
sekhara. See also Notes 57, 205. If it was known, I
think that the author would have been tempted to
make a reference to it by name. The author of the
S.K.U., therefore, probably belonged to the latter
part of the 17th century or the beginning of the
18th century.
XV
and the answer to the problem connected with the
usage kukṣimbhara in the context is given in the
Tattvabodhini, which is referred to by our author
by the expression ity eke. There are certain other
places too where the S.K.U. seems to be following
the Tattvabodhini.
Jñanendrabhikṣu (or Jñänendrasarasvati) is said
to have been a Teacher, in the Vedānta, of the
father of Jagannatha, who is assigned to the period
between 1590 and 1665 A.D. There is no reference
to Jagannatha, as far as I can search, in the S.K.U.,
and this absence of reference need not mean any-
thing. Jagannatha did not have any systematic
discussion about the correctness or otherwise of
linguistic uses in literary works, with which our
author is mainly concerned here. The absence of
any reference, therefore, to Jagannatha need not
mean an earlier date for our author. There is no
mention of Nägeśa or his works in the S.K.U. But
in one place there is similarity of views of our author
and of Nageśa (See Note 143). Our author was
probably a contemporary of Nageśa, and belonged
to the time by which Nageśa's works had not yet
travelled to the other parts of the country. Though
our author refers to some Paribhāṣās (See pp. 51, 52
and 53) there is no reference to the Paribhāṣendu-
sekhara. See also Notes 57, 205. If it was known, I
think that the author would have been tempted to
make a reference to it by name. The author of the
S.K.U., therefore, probably belonged to the latter
part of the 17th century or the beginning of the
18th century.