Indian Antiquary Vol 45

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

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MADHAVACHARYA AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS
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(2) It is believed that the Sarvadarkanasangraha was one of the carliest works of Madhavacharya, but there is internal evidence to show that it must have been written at least a generation after the time of Machavacharya. Madhava quotes two versesT EUTAT and T r ea-from the Tattomuklálili pr29 of Venkatanatha
Vedantâchârva who died in A. 1). 1370. He also refers to the commentary on Anandatirtha's bhashy in the sentence fara carcaram tesz..29 Here the reference is evidently to the commentary of the great commentator (Tikacharya) Jayatirtha, who succeeded Akshobhyatirtha. The latter, who was the fourth in apostolic succession to Anandatirtha or Madhvacharya, is said to have died in A. . 1367.) Jayatirtha is said to have been the guru of the malha for 22 years. So he must have died in A. 1). 1389) or 1390. The following verse embodies a tradition that in a philosophical debate between Vidy ranya and Akshobhyatirtha, the latter vanquished the former :
असिना तस्वमसिना परजीवप्रभेदिना ।
विद्यारण्यमहारण्यमक्षोभ्यमुनिराच्छिनत् ।। It is also stated that Vedantacharya acted the part of an umpire in connection with the above debate. It is therefore clear that Madhavacharya, Akshộbhyatirtha and Védantacharya were contemporaries; and Jayatîrtha, the successor of Akshôbhyatîrtha, may have been a younger contemporary of Madhavacharya, as he is stated in the Jayatirt
jam to have come in contact with Vidyaranya. It is not unreas inable to suppose that at least a generation would be required for the works of Vedantacharya and Jayatirtha to get currency so as to be quoted by others. In these circumstances the Sarvadarbanasangraha cannot be the work of Madhavacharya, but of some one who lived at least a generation after him,
(3) Madhava begins his work with obeisance to a quru named Sarvajña-Vishņu, who was the son of Sáriga pani. In no work of either Madhavacharya or Sâyana do we meet with the praise of this guru. From the colophon to the Tarkubháshú vyakhya, we learn that its author Chennubhata was the son of Sarvajna-Vishnu, that he had an elder brother named Sarvajña and that he was patronised by Harihara II. It runs thus. -
इति श्रीहरिहररायपालितेन सहजसर्वज्ञविष्णुदेवाराध्यतनूजेन सर्वज्ञानुजेन त्रुभहन विरचितावां तर्कभाषाव्याख्यायां
An inscription, 3 of A.D. 1380, which refers itself to the reign of Harihara II, mentions Sarvaiña-Vishnu-pura as another name of the village Homma. In his Sankara-darsana Sayaņa quotes from Sarvajña-Vishnu's Vivaranavivarana.
तदुक्तं विवरणविवरणे सहजसर्वज्ञविष्णुमहोपाध्यायः From these references Sarvajña-Vishņu appears to have been a contemporary of Harihara II and Sayana. Some would have us believe on the authority of the Punyaslókamaijari that Sarvajña-Vishņu was the name by which Vidyâtîrtha was known before he became a sanyasi. But this is not likely, as Vidyatîrtha must have died before Harihara came to the throne. In his Catalogus Catalogorum, under Sâyana, Aufrecht says that Vishuu-Sarvajña was Sayana's teacher, but it is not clear on what authority this statement is based. If this is true, Madhava's guru was probably the son of Sâyana's teacher Vishnu-Sarvajña, who may have had another name Sariga pàņi. This supposition derives
29 Ibid., p. 60.
28 Anandaśrama Series, p. 44. 30 Padmanabhachar's Life and Teachings of Madhvúcharya. 31 Epi. Car., IV, Chamarajanagar 64.