Indian Antiquary Vol 45

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

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some support from the fact that Sarvajña-Vishņu (i. e., Sarvajña's son Vishnu), as stated by Chennubhaa, had a son Sarvajña, evidently so named after his own father VishnuSarvajia (i. e., Vishnu's son Sarvajña).
I would close the account of Madhavâchârya with a verse in praise of him from the Alaikäru-sulhandhi of Siyana. This verse, by a pim on the words, likens him to Vishnu.
अनंतभोगसंसको द्विजपंगवसेवितः। सचिवः सर्वलोकानां बाता जयति माधवः ॥
Sayaņa. Sâyana was the minister of four Vijayanagar kings, namely, Bukka I, Kampana, Sangama II and Harihara II. This is made evident in the colophons of his various works. Thus, in some of his commentaries on the Vedas he styles himself the minister of Bukka I (6919 T T UTT); in his Subhashita-sudhânidhi he calls himself the minister of Kampa-Raja (see page 2); in his Dhituvritli, Prayaschitta-sudhanidhi, Yajñatantraxudha nidhi and Alankára-sudhânidhi he styles himself the minister of Sangama II; and in his commentaries on the Satapatha, Taittiriya and Yajurvéda Brahmanas he calls himself the minister of Harihara II. Purushartha-sudhanidhi and Ayurveda-sudhanidhi are two more of his works. The latter, a medical work, is referred to in Sâyana's Alankára-sudhanidhi (oryt
e fa ftatimia 9 ), and in a later medical work called Prain Attaramála written under the patronage of Venkatâdri-vibhu by Srisailanatha, who says that an ancestor of his wrote a compendium of the Ayurvedanwithanidhi at the instance of the minister Sâyaņa.
एकामनाथो यत्तातः सायणामात्यचोदितः ।
समग्रहीत्सुबोधार्थमायुर्वेदसुधानिधि ॥ The Alankara-sudhanidhi of Sáyana is interesting in several ways. It gives a few hitherto unknown details about Sâyana and his brother Bhôganatha, which are of considerable interest and importance. Before proceeding to notice these details, it may not be out of place here to give some account of the work itself. As may be inferred from the name, it is a treatise on rhetoric. Unfortunately the manuscript in my possession is fragmentary, containing only two unméshas or chapters and a portion of the third. The whole work appears to contain ten unmêshas. One remarkable peculiarity of the work consists in the majority of the illustrative examples being in praise of the author himself. This peculiarity is not met with in any other Sanskrit work on rhetoric. When the rules as well as the illustrations are composed by the same author, the illustrations are, as a rule, in praise of soare deity, or of some king or chief who was the patron of the author. The authors and works referred to or quoted from in the course of the fragment are the following:
Authors-Abhinavagupta, Anandavardhana, Udbhata, Kuntaka, Gôpalasvami, Bbartrihari, Bhastanayaka, Bhâmaha, Bhåsa, Bhöganatha, Bhoja, Mahima, Rudraţa, Vamana, Vidyadhara and Sankuka.
Works-Udaharanamala, Gaurinathashaka, Brihatkatha, Mahaganapatistótra, Mahaviracharita, Mahimnastiitra, Malatimadhara, Ramollasa, Lôchana, Vákyapadiya, Vênisamhára, Vyaktiviveka, Sringaraprakása, Sringaramañjari, Tripuravijaya and Vishamaba nalila.
Of the above works, sis are by Bhôganâtba, the younger brother of Sâyaņa. These will be noticed later on when speaking of Bhôganatha. One of these, the Udaharana mâlâ. appears to have been specially written in praise of his elder brother Sayava.