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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY, 1904.
कात्यायनकृतस्यैव प्रायश्चित्तविधैरिह ॥ व्याख्या संग्रहतः कृत्वा प्रयोगस्य च निर्णयम् । सर्वेषामुपकाराय याज्ञिकानां करोम्यहम् ॥ काहं क्वचैष निगमार्णवरत्नकुंभः कात्यायनस्य करुणानिधिनैव तेन ॥ सुस्वम एत्य कथितं क्रियतां मदीयोपग्रन्थभाष्यमिति सा कुरुते तदाज्ञा ॥
Upagranthabháshyn. Another contemporary of Ramabhadra-Dikshita was Appa Dikshita or Appadhvarin of Mayavaram, who wrote his Achdranavanita between A. D. 1696-1704, in the reign of Sabaji I. Other works by the same author are the Madanabhúshanabhana and the Gaurimdyúrachampú. He belonged to the Srivatsa gôtra and his father's name was Chidambara-Dikshita of Killayûr. In A. D.1696, in the Cyclic year Dhatri, during the reign of Sahaji, he went to Tanjore to attend the yaga (sacrifice) performed by Tryambakamatya-Dikshita (i.e. Tryambakarao Peshva). The latter was then officiating as minister in place of his elder brother's son Anandarayamakhin (Anandarao Peshva), who was still a youth. After the sacrificial ceremonies were over, the king detained Appå Dikshita at Tanjore for about three months in order to hear him recite the Mahabharata. On his departure after three months, he was desired by the king to write a digest on the law, religion, and customs of the country. He, accordingly, began the Achdranavanita in A. D. 1696, and together with his son completed it after a lapse of eight years in A. D.1704. It begins as follows:
वन्दे गुरूनुदयमूर्तिबुधाभिधानान्यद्रोविजृम्भणमहो जगतस्तमोनुत् । तान्पिल्लशाज्यभिधलोकगुरोः पुराण'पुण्यानुभावकृतभूमितलावतारान् ॥ गौरीमायूरनाथापिनेन्दिन्दिरमानसः ।। अप्पाध्वरी वितनुते सदाचारस्य संग्रहम् ॥ आलत्तूरधिवासस्य पिल्लशास्त्रिबुधेशितुः ।
आचारनवनीताख्यं निबध्नाति कृपाबलात् ।। किंचिदशः क्वाहमप्पाध्वरिपदविदितो धर्मशास्त्र कचेदं . वेदेभ्यः प्रोन्तं यन्मनुमुखमुनिभिर्वेदतत्वार्थविद्भिः। किंतु स्वाधीनवृत्तेर्वटविटपितले सेग्यमानस्य शिष्यबुद्धेः संप्रेरकस्य प्रकटितयशसः पश्यत प्रौढिमानम् ।। श्रीशाहक्षितिपालनायकदयादत्तान्नभोगोल्लसबुद्ध्युत्कर्षविभावितश्रुतिबहुस्मृत्यर्थसारोदयः । सभ्यानां प्रमदाय सर्वविषयान्धर्मात्रहस्योत्तरान्संगृहात मितैः पदैरधिवसन्मायूरमप्पावरी ॥
• This author has been already mentioned on p. 137 above.
