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INTRODUCTION kāri kā suggests a series of teachers in which after Pañcaśikha come and Ulūka, or perhaps Vodhu, before Varşa and Iśvarakrsna. Gārgya,
We do not know whom the commentator refers to under this name. He is however identified by Dr. Schrader as a teacher of Samaveda, Atharva-veda, grammar, etc. We know of two Gārgyas mentioned in one of the three lists of teachers given in the Brhad Aranyaka Upanişad. One of them is the celebrated astronomer who approaches Pippalāda for the solution of a psychological problem whereas the other is designated as Gārgya Bālāki, a contemporary of Yājñavalkya, a towering personality of the Aupanişada age.
A 'grammarian of this name is quoted in the 'Nirukta (I. 3.12 etc.) of Yăska, a pre-eminent authority on Etymology. Vyāghrabhūti
Dr. Schrader mentions that he is a grammarian. That there is a grammarian of this name is borne out by the following kärikäs :
“Pazaretta-AUT a so eta i
T1TTICUF, De affa fra 11.901) fo, Heft, fa, 461, , , ya, goft fatia: 1 भाष्यानुक्का नवेहोक्ता, व्याघ्रभूत्यादिसम्मतेः ॥११॥"
-Siddhānta-kaumudī p. 351 (ed. Nirnayasagar, 1915) Moreover this is corroborated by H. T. Colebrooke; for, in the “Miscellaneous Essays” (vol. II, p. 49) he remarks :
“The Vārtikas of Vyāghrabhūti and Vyāghrapāda are mentioned by many authors and so is the Dhātu pārāyana." Vad(d)vali
In this connection one may refer to the Mahābhārata (XIII, 252). Mathara
It appears that the commentator under this name alludes to Māthara, the first commentator of the Sānkhya-kārikā of īśvara-krsna.
been differently dated by different scholars. Haraprasđá Šāstri in his chronology of the Sankhya system (J. BORS, 1923, June)
1. See "The Heritage of India the Sankhya system” (p. 44) by Dr. A. B. Keith D. C. L., D. Litt.
2. There is a grammarian of this name mentioned by Dr. Burnell, a fact supported by Astādhyayi (8-3-19).
3. See the Nighantu and the Nirukta edited by Dr. L. Sarup, M.A., D. Phil.
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