4 38 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar § 24 -] from the vārtikas or from the notes in the Mahābhāshya, as well as from some of the added rules. Most of the new matter found in the Kašikā can, however, be traced to Chandragomin, from whose work he diligently draws his material without anywhere acknowledging his sources.¹ This fact, as before pointed out, settles 470 A. D. as the upper limit for the date of the Käsikä. 25. Jinendrabuddhi's Nyasa on the Käsika.-An excellent commentary on the Käsikä called Käsikä-vivarana-pañjikā or Kasika-nyāsa is the work of Jinendrabuddhi, who styles himself art. This informs us about his re- ligion; as to his date he cannot be later than 750 A. D., seeing that he is referred to by Bhamaha, who says that a poet should never employ a compound in which a verbal derivative in g is compounded with a noun in the gene- tive case, and adds that he should not support such usage by the authority of the Nyasa, which presumably is the same as this work." The Nyasa follows closely on the lines of the Käsikä and tries to incorporate into itself whatever new was produced upto its time. It is a pity that we as yet 1 Thus on iv. 2. 138 Kasika gives the vārtika the sutra itself in conformity with the Chandra vyakarana. Many more similar instances are given by Liebich in his edition of the Chandra vyuka- which is Chindra sutra iii. 2,61; the karika on v. 4.77 in the Kasika embodies eatras iv. 4. 72 und 73, of Chandra, the Kasika further 2 Govt. Or. Mss, Library, Madrus, remarking a Ms. no. 941 gives the rame as rana. t , 3 Sce, however, the references cited at the end of page 35, note 2 above. ¦ Papini's stra viii. 3. 118, : Chandra changes into a (vi. 4.98), following herein & värtika of Katyayana 1 Compare-:targer (aat fie mato - ); while Kūdika reads fra fr.
