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VERNMENT ORIENTAL LIBRARY, VYSORE
No. 662 (B1). **FIAT Toth (HTFifat),
* Ķgarthadipikā. Author-Mädbarārya. Letters in a line-16. Substance-Paper.
Age of Ms.-Ancient. Size—71 x 5 inches.
Condition of Ms.--Good.
Correct or incorrectCharacter- Kannada.
Incorrect. Folios—–163.
Complete or incompleteLines on a page-13.
Incomplete.
Subject in brief :
This manuscript describes in grammatical order, the meaning of the words in the Rk Sambitā beginning with the last Rk of the first varga of the third Adhyāya in the first Aştaka. The first two Adhyâyas of the first Aştaka have been printed in two volumes under the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. The author ‘Madhavārya' has given his geneology in the colophon at the end of each Adhyāya. He belongs to the family of Viśvāmitra and is born of Venkatärya and Sundari. Traditionally, he is said to have been a direct disciple of Rāmānujācārya, the founder of the Visiştādvaita system of Philosophy. In the introduction to the Trivandrum edition mentioned above, the editor, relying on the above tradition, has counted Madhavārya as one of Rāmānujācārya's disciples and ascribed to him a date not later than the first half of the 12th century A.D. But this tradition is discountenanced by the author's invoking the favour of the God Vināyaka in one of his verses as well as by his not giving obeisance to his Guru at the beginning of his work as is the wont with all the disciples of Rāmānujācārya.
However, Sāyana, in his Bhāsya on the Rg Veda mentions the name of Madhavārya and actually quotes D.C.M.
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