[- § 79 Treatises Accessory to Sarasvata 103 ttoji Dikshita, Raghunatha by name. It is called Laghu- bhashya and aspires to treat of the various grammatical topics after the manner of Patanjali. Raghunatha was a Nagara, the son of Vinayaka, and belongs, as the pupil of Bhattoji to the middle of the seventeenth century. 79. Treatises accessory to the Sarasvata. Of accessory treatises in connection with the Sarasvata there are very few. There are no works on Unādis or Paribhashas. A Dhatupätha with a com. on it called Tarangini was composed, as stated above, by Harshakirti, pupil of Chan- drakīrti. His date, therefore, is cir. 1560 A. D. A writer called Jñanatilaka has put together all the examples of af, and sun affixes based on the Sarasvata chapters dealing with them. A ms. of this work is dated Samvat 1704. Another writer named Madhava has attempted a derivation of words according to the Sarasvata. His date is probablys 1680; and these are all, or at any rate, all worth noticing. As the Sarasvata was meant to be the shortest and the easiest manual of Sanskrit grammar, it would seem that no further abridgments of it were called for. The facts are otherwise. Besides the Laghusiddhantachandri- kā above noticed, an author called Kalyanasarasvati has produced areat strearar a small work called Laghusāras- vata. He lived probably towards the close of the 18th century. 80. General review of the history of the Särasvata school. Taking now a general review of the history of this school it will be perceived that the Sarasvata like the Katantra, sprang up in response to the felt need of the time, and having once attained a fixity of form, the work con- tinued to be studied in all parts of Northern India by the ane( ? )aya- fa () 3 Compare (1)
