Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Bhashyas or commentaries on the Brihadâranyaka and seven other Upanishads, (Nos. 247 and 227230), and Narayana's Dipikâs or glosses on forty-six treatises of that class, (No. 233); (J., Appendix II.). Then there is a copy of Anandajñâna's gloss, (No. 248), on Sankaracharya's Bhashya on the Brihadâranyaka, of the Vârtika or commentary in verse, (No. 249), on the same Bhashya by Sureśvarâchârya who was a pupil of Sankaracharya, and of a commentary on the fourth chapter of this Vârtika by twondajñana, (No. 250). Similarly there are copies commearacharya's exposition of the Mahavâkyas, or BhanudaUpanishad texts declaratory of the identity supreme and the individual souls, (Nos. Puñjarâio61). We have also got Anandajñâna's voluminous commentary, (No. Works based on the 266), on Samkaracharya's
Brahmasútra.
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Bhashya on the Brahmasutra which is very valuable and which I now use for my lectures on the Bhashya, a portion of which has to be got up by students who take up English and Sanskrit as an optional subject for the B.A. Examination. may also mention a copy of the second half of the Samkshepaśariraka, or substance of Samkarâchârya's Bhashya, (No. 268), by Sarvajñâtman who was a pupil of Sureśvarâcharya and grandpupil of Samkaracharya. There is also a copy of a commentary by one Râmatîrtha, (No. 269), on the fourth or last chapter of this work.
of Manu,
In a stanza at the end of the Samkshepaśâriraka the author tells us that he A prince of the race wrote his work while "the prosperous king, the Aditya or sun of the race of Manu, who belonged to a Kshatriya family and whose orders were nowhere disobeyed, was ruling over the earth." Who this Aditya of the race of Manu was, it is difficult to determine. But princes of the early Châlukya dynasty which ruled