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[ 28 ] from his habit of reading logic only once every fortnight. He is sometimes, but erroneously, called Jayadeva, and more erroneously identified with the author of the Gita Govinda, who lived in the district of Bankurah betweeen six and seven hundred years ago. Vasudeva Sarvabhauma of Nadia was a pupil of Pakshadhara. He wrote a commentary on some parts of the Chintamani which bore the title of Sarvabhauma Nirukti, but it probably was superseded by the work of his pupil Raghunatha Siromani, who is said to have studied for a time with Pakshadhara also, and was a contemporary of Raghunandana, the author of the twenty-eight Tattvas. He commented on the first two books only, and of these the second occurs in the Bodleian (Nos. 587, 588, 589), the Berlin (No. 650), and other collections. A fragment of the first exists in the Calcutta Sanskrit College Library. The most apt pupil of Raghunatha was Srirama Tarkalankara, but the professor neglected him and encouraged another, a dunce, in his stead. The tradition runs that Srirama was very much hurt at this, and at his death bed earnestly requested his son Mathuranatha Tarkavagisa, then a youth of 19 years of age, to avenge the insult, by writing a commentary on the Chintamani which should supersede the work of his preceptor. Mathuranatha, though well versed in Sanskrit at the time, was not proficient in the Nyaya, and the best teacher accessible to him being Raghunatha, he became his pupil, and as he read on, he compiled notes on the Didhiti which are still extant. Those notes, however, are not held in so much esteem as the scholia on that work by Jagadisa (vide No. DVII). Gadadhara's notes are likewise said to be superior to them. The exercise, however, qualified Mathuranatha for a longer and more comprehensive work in which he commented on all the four books of the Chintamani, and indulged in a sarcasm against his tutor by describing him as one who knew only up to a semblance of a reason: jananti kechit hetvabhasantam, thereby redeeming the pledge he had given to his father. His work is generally acknowledged to be more lucid and successful than that of his tutor; but a complete copy of it has not yet been met with. The fragments here noticed are portions of the second book; other fragments are available in the Library of the Calcutta Sanskrit College. It is said that complete copies may be had at Navadvipa. A scholia on the Gunaprakasa, the Guna-prakasa-vivriti is the only other work (Calcutta Sanskrit College Library, No. 451) of his that has come to my notice.-The India Office MSS. Nos. 3062,786, 282 and 108 are said to be commen-