Karma Mimansa

Author(s): Berriedale Keith
Publisher: Berriedale Keith

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THE KARMA-MIMANSA must be taken as falling in the Samvat reckoning as 841 A.D. This date, it may be added, tells strongly against any effort to bring down the date of Samkara,' on whose Särirakabhasya Vācaspati wrote the Bhāmati, and the same conclusion is favoured by the view that Mandana Mišra, on whose work Vācaspati also commented, was a pupil of Sarkara.
Varadarāja also claims, with obvious truth, to have been an expert in Mimâmsā; he was evidently familiar with Sälikanātha's work, and his commentator fortunately preserves for us a fragment of the Prameya pārāyana chapter of the Prakaranapañcikā, no MS. of which has yet been discovered. M which gives an authentic list of Prabbâkara's categories.
1 S. V. Venkateswara (J.R.A.S., 1916, pp. 151-62) ignores this evidence in giving Samkara's date as 805-897 A.D. He cannot have died later than 825 A.D, or so.
Ed. Beasres, 1903, p. 364.