100. Misarumiśra
Volume I: Part II pp. 842–844
... pp. Wrote Vivādacandra – contents – work composed under orders of queen Lachimadevī, wife of prince Candrasimha of Mithilā – flourished about 1450 A. D.
— Synopsis by P.V. Kane, from History of Dharmaśāstra
100. Misarumiśra
##100. Misarumiśra
Misarumiśra is famous for his works called Vivādacandra and Padārtha-candrikā ( on the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system ). There is a mṣ of the Vivādacandra in the Deccan College ( No. 57 of 1883-84 ). That work deals with the titles of Law ( vyavahāra- padas ) such as ṛṇādāna ( recovery of debt ), nyāsa ( deposit ), aśvāmi-vikraya, saṁbhūya-samutthāna ( partnership ), dāyavibhāga, strīdhana; and then with procedure, viz. the plaint, reply, pramāṇas, witnesses, possession etc. It frequently quotes the Ratnākara ( on vivāda and vyavahāra ) of Cāṇḍeśvara and several times criticizes hiṃ Besides numerous smṛti writers the other authors and works named are : Pārijāta, Prakāśa, Bālarūpa ( often ), Bhavadeva and Smṛtisāra ( frequently ). In the msṣ and colophons the name of the author seems to be Misarumiśra.1 He tells us that he wrote the work under the orders of princess Lachimādevī, wife of prince Candrasimha who appears to have been the younger brother of Bhairavasimhādeva of the Kāmeśvara dynasty of Mithilā. The work was probably called Vivādacandra to connect it with the prince Candrasimha. The Vivādacandra first2 speaks of king Bhaveśa of the Kāmeśvara dynasty, then of his son Harisimhādeva, then of his son Darpaṇarāyana and the latter's queen Hīrā or Dhīrā and then of his queen Lakṣhimā or Lachimā. We saw above that Cāṇḍeśvara who had weighed himself against gold in 1314 A. D. wrote in his old age under Bhaveśa his work on Rājanīti. Lachimādevī was queen of the great-grandson of this Bhaveśa, who became king of Tirhut in the third quarter of the 14th century. Therefore Candrasimha must have flourished about the middle of the 15th century and Misarumiśra's work must be assigned to that perioḍ M. M. Chakravarti points out (JASB for 1915, p. 425) that for Dhīrasimha, a son of Darpaṇarāyana, there is an authentic date, viz. 321 of the Lakṣmaṇasena era in Tirhut (i. e. 1438 A. D.), when a mṣ of Śrīnivāsa's Setudarpaṇī (coṃ on Setubandha) was copied during Dhīrasimha's reigṇ It appears that Misarumiśra was closely related to Lakṣhimādevī, who was the daughter of Misarumiśra's sister.
That the Vivādacandra is a work of authority on Hindu Law in Mithilā has been recognised from very early days in the British courtṣ3 The Vivādacandra held that the word strīdhana was to be applied to such woman's property as was technically so called (by the sages) and not to all property that comes to a womaṇ4