Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Tanjore Vol 16

SR No.: 020241
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P P S Shastri
Publisher: Government of Madras
Publication Year: 1932
Total Pages: 505
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 16 MB

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(17th century) and Abhinavayapla (17th centuary) are great and they bave been #lready referred to in the previpgs volumes of this catalogue. The last of them is a great authority on., Alankira and Kashirere Stivism The immortal Nīlakáthais.remem. bered as the author who gave a vedāntic turn to this school. The great Sadyojyotis has written commentaries on perhaps almost all the works of Agorašivicirya and most of them are preserved in this Library. Haradattas was a great South India Paiva re. former whose name is connected with Kamsapura (Modern Kanja. nur near Narasingampet, Tanjore District).
IV. CAITANYA (NOE. 8224-8238)
The works in this section are few and the writers with the ex. ception of a few belong to North India. Lakamidbars the author of * Bhagavannāmakaumudi (No. 8238)-is a great South Indiad writer already noticed. Viļghala the author of Vidvanmondana (No. 3288) is the son of the great Vallabhåcårya the founder of this school of thought. Vallabācarya was a contemporary of Kry. nadevariya, Emperor of Vijayanagar in the beginning of the 16th century. Among the important works in this section the following two require special mention as they are not printed ; . Bhak. timimāmsābbåsya by Nārāyanatirtha (No. 8226), and Premarasd. yana by Vidvanāthapandita (No. 8236). The Sūtrakära Sandilya, the Bhäộyakāra Svapneśvara, and Vianupūri are represented by their works, Bhaktimimämsā (No. 8224), Bhaktimimämsibhaøya (No. 8225) and Bhaktiratnivalifikå (No. 8238, respectively.
*For further information about this writer, see "Srikantha's Sividvaita by S. S. Sastri, Madras University,
$ About Haradatta, see the introduction to Vol. X.(Vyška. raqa.)