number of the Saka and Kali year as follows:- "इदानी चैकाशीतिवर्षाधिकसहस्रैक (1031 )पर्यन्तेन शकाब्दकालेन षष्टिवर्षाधिकद्विचत्वारिंशच्छतानि (1260) कलिसन्याया भूतानि" This date corresponds to the year 1159 of the Christian Era. So the date of our author must be somewhere between the latter part of the 10th century and the early part of the 12 h century. Tradition assigns the Kali-year 1680 (1422. B. c.) as the date of Kulasekharalwar mentioned in the Tamil Prabandhas. If this date is to be accepted, our author Kulasekhara Varma cannot be the same as the Kulasekharalwar but might be his descendant. As regards the date and home of Sivarama, the author of the commentary published in this volume, very little is known, except that he has written a commentary of equal merit on Subhadrâdhananjaya also, which, with the commen- tary, will be published as one of this Sanskrit Series. Trivandrum. T. GANAPATI SASTRI.
