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calls himself in both places Anantananda- interpreted, this may be probably taken to giri, not simply Ânan dagiri. And in con- signify that, according to Madhava, Ananda. nexion with this it may also be remarked, that giri the pupil of Sankaracharya was identical when Anandagiri is mentioned, as he is with Anandagiri the commentator on Sankara's once, in the course of the work, he is simply Bhashyas. I think, however, that the fact is mentioned in the third person--as Anandagiri. I not so. The commentator on Sankara's BhaThese circumstances combined might, perhaps, shyas is described in the colophons to his writsuggest a slight suspicion that Anantânandagiri ings as pupil of Suddhananda, and not as and Anandagiri were two distinct persons. But pupil of Sankaracharya, which should have been the facts that no other pupil of Sankara's bear the description if Mâdhava's statement, as we ing the former name is anywhere mentioned, interpret it, had been correct. To this it may that the work is by tradition ascribed to also be added that this Anandagiri, the Anandagiri, & and that the names are in sub- disciple of Suddhậnanda, has written a comstance identical,ll must, I think, be held to mentary on the Várttika of Suresvar å cha. negative such a suspicion.
rya to the Bhashyas of Sankara on the Bri. Moreover this Anandagiri is, in all proba- hadáranyakopanishad.t And in view of the bility, a different person from the Ananda- events narrated by Madhava himself in his dangiri who is known by his commentaries on the karavijaya, in the 13th chapter, it it does not seem principal Bhashyas of Sankaracharya-name- very likely thut any work of Sareśvara's should ly, the Bháshya on the Brahmasútras, that on have been commented upon by any other of the chief Upanishads, and that on the Bhaga- Sankara's pupils. Some other works by this vadgitá. Professor Aufrecht leaves this ques. Anandagiri-who in the colophons to several tion of identity undecided, saying “Utrum of his works is called Anandajnâna, and by Prof. igitur Anantânandagiri zoster idem sit cum Aufrecht also Anandajnanagiri s-are noticed in Ånandajnânagiri, qui Sureśvare, Sankare dis. Dr. FitzEdward Hall's Contributions to a Bibliocipuli, Bțihadáranyakae interpretatione se usum graphy of Indian Philosophical Systems and in esse profitetur, an nomen illud a seræ ætatis Prof. Aufrecht's Catalogus. But the literary homine usurpatum sit, in præsentia quidem in activity of the author of the Sankaravijayamedio relinquo."* But if we are right in iden- if he is to be distinguished from the Anandagiri tifying Anandagiri with Anantânandagiri, Mâ. just mentioned-appears, as far as I am aware, dha va may perhaps be cited against us. For to be confined to that work. in his Sankaravijaya, XIII. 20, we have the But to return to the Sankaravijaya. It results following words in the speech addressed to San- from what has been pointed out above that the kara by his pupils :--"Or let this Anandagiri claim which this work sets up for itself amounts (write a Vpitti on your commentary on the to this:-that it contains a narrative written Brahmasútras), since the wife of Brahma, contemporaneously with, or soon after, the occur. pleased with his fierce austerities, gave him as rence of the events narrated, and that the narraa boon the ability to explain your writings active is composed by one who had the best opporcording to their true intent." Historically tunity of observing what he describes. || Upon
I Vide p. 344. Bat AnantAnandagiri is similarly men. See the extract from Prof. Aufrecht's Catalogus given tioned twice (see pp. 19 and 257), so that this circum- above in the text, and also Catalogus, p. 3906. stance is quite immaterial.
Relating to the abandonment by Sankars of his in. The first thirty-two sections of the work close with tention to get Suresvara to write a Várttika on his Brahma. इत्यनन्तानन्दगिरिवृती, &c. Subsequently the form changes to
sdtra Bhashya at the instance of his other pupils, of f i t, &c. For the reading of the Oxford copies,
course including Anandagiri. which seems to be in the latter form throughout, see
85 Compare the extract above given and the Index of
"auctorum nonvins," where some other names are also given, Aufrecht's Catalogus, pp. 9476 and 2536.
though the authority for saying that they are all names of || Anandagiri is probably a mere abbreviation for Adan. tAnandagiri. Compare, for such abbreviations, Sankara's
one person is not stated. And as to Ananda Tirtha Bhashya on Brahmasutra III. 39, and Patanjali's Mahd
there is certainly mistake. For that is a name not of bhashya on Panini I. 1. 7 (p. 116).
Anandagiri, but of MadhavachArya. See the Sarvadarsana. TÅnandagiri's comment on the Brahmasdtra Bhashya
sangraha Pärnaprajna Darsana, and compare Dr. Hall's
Contributions (Index of authors' names), and Wilson's has not been printed, except the part on the fourth pada of the third chapter in the Bibliotheca Indica edition. The
Works, vol. I. pp. 139, 149. comments on the other two Bhashyas have been long in . He was one of the four pupils in whose charge Bankara
left his body on an important occasion (see Sankaravijayo, Pro Prof. Aufrecht's Catalogus, p. 2526.
p. 946).
