Karma Mimansa

Author(s): Berriedale Keith
Publisher: Berriedale Keith

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THE KARMA-MIMAMSA the Sūtra; on it commented, in 1543 A.D., 'Rāmakrsna Bhatta, son of Madhava, in the Fuktisnehaprapūrani, Somanātha, son of Sura Bhatta, an Andhra Brahman of the Nittal family, in his Mavulhamalika, Vaidyanatha (1710 AD), Bhațța Samkara, Bhatta Dinakara, Kamalākara, and others. His Tantraratna comments on points in the last nine Adhyāyas of the Sutra and the Bhäsya, while his Nyāyaratnamālāt is an independent treatise on which Râmānuja, apparently the great Vedantist, has written a comment, the Nayakaratna.
Much later in date is Khandadeva, who died at Benares in 1665 A.D. His works, the Bhättadipikā, and on a larger scale the Mimamsūkaustubha, deal fully with the Sūtra, the former was commented on in 1708 by his pupil Sambhu Bhatta. Value attaches also to the Mimāmsästtradidhitt or Nyāyāvalididhitt of Raghavananda Sarasvati, pupil of Advaya, pupil of Visvešvara, and to the Mimāmsānayaviveka of Bhavanātha Misra, which deals also with Sabarasvamin. Yet other commentaries are recorded, including works by Mahadeva Vedantin, Kamalākara and Vaidyanātha, son of Rāmacandra, the Subodhinis of Ramešvara Sūri, the Bhattacintamani of Visveśvara or Gāgā Bhatta, etc
Apart from the Sūtra there was developed a considerable literature which aims, as did Mandana Miśra, at dealing Systematically with the doctrines of the school. First in importance, perhaps, is the Jaimiri yanyāyamālāvistarat of the famous Madhava written in the fourteenth century, which, however, is merely a summary in verse, with a prose comment, of the Mimārsū Sūtra. At the end of the sixteenth century Appayya Dikşita wrote his Vidhirasāyana, a disquisition on the nature of injunction, adding himself a commentary, the Sukhopayojini. This text was refuted by Gopala Bhatta in his Vidhirasāyanabhūşana, and by Samkara Bhatta in his Vidhirasa yanadusana. The same author, who was of the same period as Appayya, wrote
* Ed. Bepares, 1900. * Ed. Conjeveram, 1902 (I, 2 only). The Dipika is ed, in the
Bibliotheca Indica. * Ed. Pandit, XVII-XXI. * Ed, London, 1878.
Ed. Benares 1901.