History of Indian Philosophy

SR No.: 007593
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Surendranath Dasgupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 1922
Total Pages: 2517
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 125 MB

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380 The Philosophy of Vallabha
[CH. also wrote commentaries on Sevāphala, Sannyāsa-nirnaya and Bhakti-vardhini, the Bhāsya-prakāśa and the Utsava-pratāna. He wrote these commentaries also; Nirodha-laksana, Jalabheda, Pañcapādya, and the Tirtha commentary on the Bhakti-hamsa of Vitthala on the Siddhānta-muktāvalī and the Bāla-bodha. He also wrote a sub-commentary on Vitthala's Bhāsya on the Gāyatrī, a commentary on Vallabhāstaka, the Vedānta-karanamāla and the Šāstrārtha-prakarana-nibandha, and a commentary on the Gītā. He is said to have written about nine hundred thousand verses, and is undoubtedly one of the most prominent members of the Vallabha school.
Muralidhara, the pupil of Vitthala, wrote a commentary on Vallabha's Bhāsya called the Bhāşya-ţikā; also the Paratattvāñjana, Bhakti-cintāmani, Bhagavannāma-darpana, Bhagavannāma-vaibhava. Vitthala's great-grandson Vallabha, born in 1648, wrote the Subodhini-lekha, a commentary on the Sevāphala, a commentary on the Sodaśa-grantha, the Gitā-tattva-dipani, and other works. Gopeśvaraji Mahārāja, the son of Kalyānarāja and the greatgrandson of Vitthala, was born in 1595, and wrote the Rasmi commentary on the Prakāśa of Vallabha, the Subodhini-bubhutrabodhini, and a Hindi commentary on the Siksāpatra of Harirāja. The other Gopeśvara, known also as Yogi Gopeśvara, the author of Bhakti-mārtanda, was born much later, in 1781. Giridharji, born in 1845, wrote the Bhāsya-vivarana and other works.
Muralidhara, the pupil of Vitthala, wrote a commentary on Vallabha's Anubhāsya, a commentary on the Sāndilya-sūtra, the Paratattvāñjana, the Bhakti-cintāmaņi, the Bhagavannāma-darpaņa and the Bhagavannāma-vaibhava. Raghunatha, born in 1557, wrote the commentary Nāma-candrikā on Vallabha's Bhakti-hamsa, also commentaries on his Bhakti-hetu-nirnaya and Vallabhūstaka (the Bhakti-tarangini and the Bhakti-hetu-nirnaya-vivrti). He also wrote a commentary on the Purusottama-stotra and the Vallabhāstaka. Vallabha, otherwise known as Gokulanātha, son of Vitthala, born in 1550, wrote the Prapañca-sāra-bheda and commentaries on the Siddhānta-muktārali, Nirodha-laksana, Madhurā. staka, Sarvottamastotra, Vallabhāstaka and the Gāyatri-bhāsya of Vallabhācārya. Kalyānarāja, son of Govindaraja, son of Vitthala, was born in 1571, and wrote commentaries on the falabheda and the Siddhānta-inuktūvalī. His brother Gokulastava, born in 1580,