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KARIN PREISENDANZ.
The renewed interest in the Nyāyasütra demonstrated by Vācaspati Miśra in fifteenth-century Mithilā re-manifests itself about a hundred years later in the person of Keśava Miśra, who composed a Gautamīyasūtraprakāśa." Keśava Miśra, son of Viśvadhara and brother of Umāpati, 76 was a third-generation descendent of Sankara Miśra and belonged to the Katakā branch of the Sodarapura family; besides his Nyāyasūtra commentary and another, earlier and most probably more extensive Nyāya work entitled Tarkatāndava," he wrote several works on poetics as well as Dharmaśāstra works.78 In some of the puspikā-s of his Nyāyasūtra commentary, he introduces himself as the main scholar on the advisory board of the king of
(Footnote 74 continued). and may have been written between 1535 and 1540 according to Bhattacharya; Mishra even calls it his first work (Mishra, 1966: 358) which, however, makes it impossible that it was written in 1612, as Mishra states following Parameshvar Jha (cf. Mishra, 1966: 356). Pakşadharipracāra, mentioned in the Gādhivamśavarnana (cf. Benson, 2001: 112) may have been an alternative title of this work. Mahesa Thakkura is also said to have introduced the dhautapariksā for Maithila scholars in 1550 (cf. Mishra, 1966: 360; Jha, 2001: 271). 75 This is the title of the work according to the colophon after adhyāya 1.2 in the ms. preserved at Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University (which may also be the source for the corresponding longer colophons after the other preserved adhyāya ends, i.e., 3.2, 4.2 and 5.2, as well as after the end of 5.1 printed in K.N. Jha's edition) even though the puspikä concluding adhyāya 1, just as the one after adhyāya 3, refers to a Sūtraprakāśikā; cf. GSP 24, 14-15 (1.2) and 70, 4-5 (3.2]: tīrabhukrimahipalaparisanmukhyasurina śrīkeśavakavīndreņa krtā sūtraprakāśikā // against GSP 25, n. 1: iti mahāmahopādhyāyavedantavyäsasrikeśavamiśrakrtegautamīyasūtraprakāśe ... (cf. also GSP 70, 14-15 (3.2); 97, 15-16 14.21: 114, 13-14 15.11: 124, 25-26 (5.2); in shorter form, possibly provided by the editor, GSP 17, 34 [11] and 54, 31 (3.1)). The introductory verses to adhyāya-s 2, 4 and 5 speak of a Nyāyasūtraprakāśana, unless this is not at all a title but refers to the poet's activity (GSP 25, 12 (2.1); 71, 4 [4.1); 98, 6 (5.1)): sukhenādhyāpayan kāśyām nyāyavedäntadarśane / Śrīkeśavakaviś cakre nyāyasūtraprakāśanam //; in the slightly modified verse at the beginning of adhyāya 3 this is replaced by sūtravyākhyāna (GSP 41, 4 13.11). On Keśava Miśra cf. Bhattacharya (1958: 186189); Mishra (1966: 368-370). 76 Cf. GSP 17, 32, 86, 27, 97, 13, 114, 10 and 124, 17: umäpatisagarbhena śriviśvadharajanmanā/śrīviśvadharasūnunā / ...; umāpatisagarbhasya śrīvi vadharajan manah / .... 77 Cf. GSP 23, 19 (... iti prapancitam mayaiva tarkatāndave); 104, 17 (vistaras tu tarkatāndave); 112, 19 (tat sarvam darśitamı tarkatāndave); 122, 13 (... tathā prapancitam tarkatāndave) (cf. also Bhattacharya, 1958: 188). 78 Cf. Jha (1978: [2H3]), referring to the evidence of the colophon of Keśava Miśra's Sankhyāparimāna and the Maithila parji-s.