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ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. Page 7, Line 5, add the following:In a private communication addressed to me, Mr. Ramakrishna Kavi, M.A., Tirupati, writes that Srikara is mentioned as the writer of a Vritti on the Purva Mimamsa by Sridhara, assigned to 935 A.D. Murari Misra, a writer on the Mimamsa, is, according to Mr. Ramakrishna Kavi, known to have mentioned Srikara in his Tripadinitinayana. This Murari Misra was, he adds, an younger contemporary of Mandana and Prabhakara. Srikara, he further states, is mentioned by Chandra about (850 A.D.) and, "seems to have written a Bhashya on the Uttara Mimamsa, i.e., the Brahma Sutra, also." It is known that Sridhara is saluted by Balakrishnananda Saraswati in the introductory stanzas of his commentary on Jaimini (Jaimini Sutravrittih) along with Gopalananda and Svayamprakasa [Madras Tri. Cat. of MSS., Vol. I, Part i, Skt. B, p. 55, R. No. 383 (b)]. The works of Murari and Sridhara are so far unknown in the MS. collections of South India. So far as I know, neither the Madras nor the Tanjore MS. libraries possess any works of theirs. Ramakrishna Kavi adds: "Sripati is indeed a later writer. They are two different writers. Their Bhashyas are also different. They are called Srikara Bhashya and Sripati Bhashya. Sripati is probably later than Palkuriki Somanatha. A close examination of the Bhashyas of Sripati and Srikara will reveal the priority of one of them. Sripati is clearly an Aradhya, while Srikara, as understood from his quotations, was only a profounder of Sivadvaita like Srikantha." I have been unable to trace the Vritti of Srikara on the Purva Mimamsa referred to by Mr. Ramakrishna Kavi. Nor have I been so fortunate as to trace the reference to Srikara referred to by him in Murari's work, which also I have been unable to get at so far. As regards Srikara's Bhashya on the Uttara Mimamsa, I have been equally unsuccessful in tracing it. As to Srikara and Sripati being different writers on the Uttara Mimamsa, I am unable to say anything more useful at present; nor am I able to add to what I have said already in regard to the date of Sripati. Until Srikara's Bhashya, referred to by Mr. Ramakrishna Kavi, is available, we are obviously not in a position to say anything about his standpoint-whether he was an exponent of Sivadvaita or any other system of philosophy. Sripati, as will be seen from what has been stated above, was a Virasaiva and professedly a Bhedabhedavadin. As to his being later in date than Palkuriki Somanatha, there can be no doubt whatever. Piduparti Basavanna who lived

888 ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA · later than 1480 A.D., says in his Basava Purana that King Pratapa Rudra was king during Palkuriki Somanatha's time There has been some discussion as to the identity of this Pratapa Rudra: is he Pratapa Rudra I, who ruled between 1132-1198 A.D., or Pratapa Rudra II, who was king between 1292-1325 A.D.? The real name of the former was Rudra, though modern writers have described him as Pratapa Rudra I. That the Pratapa Rudra mentioned by Piduparti Basavanna was Pratapa Rudra II, seems to follow from the fact that Palkuriki Somanatha is to have foretold the overthrow of the Kakatiya Kingdom shortly after his visit to Warrangal. And we know that Pratapa Rudra II proved the last great Kakatiya King. Malik Kafur, General of Alauddin Khilji, twice invaded Warrangal and on the second occasion, took Pratapa Rudra prisoner to Delhi. He returned to his capital as a vassal of the Sultan of Delhi and died in 1325 A.D. The prophesy of Somanatha that the Kakatiya Kingdom would fall, reported by Basavanna, could thus only refer to the final overthrow and not to any other event, ic., to any event in the reign of King Rudra, the earlier king, referred to as Pratapa Rudra I. Accordingly, we have to assign Palkuriki Somanatha to the reign of Pratapa Rudra II, who reigned between 1292-1325 A.D. But if, as is suggested in some quarters, Palkuriki Somanatha was a contemporary of Basava himself, he would have to be set down to the time of King Rudra and assigned to a period between 1132-1198 A.D. If so, the prophesy alleged to have been uttered by him in regard to the destruction of the Kakatiya Kingdom should be taken to be a later embellishment invented by ardent followers of his to augment his greatness in the public eye. However this may be, Palkuruki Somanatha should have lived before circa 1400 A.D., the approximate time about which Sripati, the commentator, lived. For For "12 th 12 th " read "10 th ". the end :Page 46, Line 26. Page 47, Line 3, add at Mr. Rangacharya, in his Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, II, 893, notes under Duggirala 209 A :-"Records that in the reign of Kakatiya Ganapatideva, his brother Bhatta Bhaskara gave in Sakha 1056 ( = A.D. 1184) the village of Duggirala (present Ellore Taluk, Krishna District) in Khandavati in 22 parts to Brahmans of 12 gotras and similarly 43 other villages (Mackenzie MSS., Book XX., 67-70)". There is some mistake here, as we see Bhatta Bhaskara is described here as the "brother" of "Kakatiya Ganapatideva ". Page 87, Line 27, for " posterior" read Page 329, Foot-note 202, Line 3. Between insert "by", ་་ anterior". " ' and" and "this" 720-26.-Printed at The Bangalore Press, Mysore Road. Bangalore City, by G. Srinivasa Rao, Superintendent.