V1 as proficient in the art of diplomacy. The Nitisára is also cited at the end of the first chapter of Dasakumaracharita of Dandin who lived in the latter half of the sixth century A..D. Dr. Rajendra Lal Mitra, in his preface to the Nitisara of Kamandaka, observes that a work of the like title was taken to the Island of Bali by the Hindus who emigrated thither about the beginning of the Christian era. Information regarding the commentator, Sankarårya also is equally scanty. From the closing sentence of Nivi & commentary on Rúpāvatára of Dharmakirti, " इति पारशवकुलति- लकेन शङ्करार्येण विरचिते नीवीसंज्ञके रूपावतारव्याख्याने ", it is seen that it was written by Sankarârya of the Pârasava family. But the same- ness of name will not be sufficient to show that the author of Jayamangala and of the Nivî are identical, as against it there is the fact that nowhere in the commentary has our commentator made any mention of his ancestry. And the author of a grammatical work called Sarvapratyayamala also bears the name of Sankarârya. But he makes a display of his own name as well as of his brother by inserting them in the body of his work, whereas the author of Jayamangala, in the full confidence that the merit of his work would be sufficient guarantee to make bis name famous did not stoop to put in his name in the body of the work. From the vanity of the one and the magnanimity of the other, it is not likely that they may be one and the same person. T. GANAPATI SASTRI. TRIVANDRUM.
