Indian Antiquary Vol 45

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(FEBRUARY, 1916
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I may also add here that another inscription, 27 which appears to be dated in A. D. 1377, also mentions Vidy:Iranya. We are therefore led to the conclusion that Madhavacharya must have been a minister sometime before A. D. 1377. According to tradition he died in A. D. 1386 at the ripe age of ninety. That he lived more than eighty-five years is made evident in the following verse from the Devya paradhastólra, a work said to have been composed by him:
परित्यक्ता देवा विविधपरिसेवाकुलतया मया पंचाशतिराधिकमपनीते तु वयसि । इदानीं चेन्मातस्तव यदि कृपा नापि भविता
निरालंबो लंबोदरजननिक यामि शरणं ॥ Before taking leave of Madhavacharya, it is necessary to say a few words about the authorship of the Sarvadarsun isangraha, which is generally believed to be one of his works.
The quotations given on page 2 make it abundantly clear that Mayara was the father of Midhavacharya and Sayana. Sâyana styles himself Mâyana-Sâyaņa in accordance with the well-known practice of giving the father's name first. What do we find in the Sarvadarśanasangraha / The following extracts from this work plainly indicate that Madhava, its author, was the son of Sayana :
श्रीमत्सायणदुग्धाब्धिकौस्तुभेन महौजसा। क्रियते माधवार्येण सर्वदर्शनसंग्रहः॥ श्रीमस्सायणमाधव , प्रभुरुपन्यास्यत्सतां प्रीतये.
इति श्रीमत्सायणमाधवीये सर्वदर्शनसंग्रहे. If Madhavâcharya had been the author of the work, he would certainly have styled himself ATT TETT and ArYTAN; and, as far as we know, there is no other work of his in which he styles himself
. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that Madhava, the author of the Sarvadarbanasangraha, is a different person altogether from Madhavacharya.
Who may this Mâdhava be? I venture to think that he is the son of Sayana, the younger brother of Madhavacharya. From Sayana's Alankdra-sudhanidhi, which was referred to on pages 1 and 2 and which will be noticed in detail further on, we learn that he had a son named Mayata who was skilful in writing poetry and prose (HOT TOYOTA Tisch IT). And the Conjeeveram inscription alluded to on page 2 is said to have the name Mâyana in the place where one would expect the name Mâdhava. It may there fore be supposed that Mayara is a corrupt form of Midhava and that the Madhava of the Sarvadarianasangraha is identical with the Mayana of the Alinkdrasudhanidhi.
Nor are other grounds wanting to support this conclusion:
(1) In the manuscripts of the Sarvadarsanasangraha, the following sentence, which states that Sankara-darsana, having been treated of elsewhere, has been omitted here. occurs at the end of Patañjala-dariana :
इत परं सर्वदर्शनशिरोमविभूतं शांकरदर्शनमन्यव निरूपितमित्यत्रोपेक्षितं. And the colophon at the end of Sánkara-darsana, which runs :
इति श्रीसायणार्यविरचिते सकलदर्शनशिरोलंकाररत्न श्रीमच्छांकरवर्शन परिसमाप्त. attributes its authorship to Sâyaņa. From this we have to infer that Sankara-darsana having been treated of elsewhere by his father Sâyana, Madhava omitted to write on it in his work.
27 Epi. Car., VI, Koppa 19.