Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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Succession list of the High-priests of the
Madhavâcharya, the pupil of Samkarânanda, and the Brahmagîtâ said to form a part of the same Khanda with a commentary by the same author, (No. 260). Of those based on episodes of the Mahabharata we have Samkaracharya's Bhashya or authoritative commentary on the Bhagavadgîtâ, one copy of which is 472 years old, (No. 252), and his Bhashya on the Vishnusahasranama. Of the independent treatises the subject composed by the great teacher we have copies of eight, most of them with commentaries (Nos. 225, 231, 232, 243, 244, 261, 656, 667), and of those composed by his followers we have ten (No. 222-224, 235, 237, 238, &c.).
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Independent treatises.
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System of Madhva.-In the Maratha section of the collection there are fifty-five manuscripts (Nos. 668-722) of forty-four different works expounding the syste of the Vedanta promulgated by Madhya who i lso known by the names of Anandatîrtha, Purnaprajña and Madhyamandâra. Anandatîrtha was the first pontiff or head of the congregation he founded, and the members of his sect have kept a regular list of his successors to the present day together with the dates of their death. Copies of the list however found in the possession of different persons differ from each other in a few respects. It appears that in the older lists the year of the cycle of sixty years in which each High-priest died was alone given, and from this was determined the Saka year. But this method is uncertain and liable to error if in any case the pontificate of any one of these extended over more than 60 years. I have compared three lists, one from Poona, another from Miraj, and the third lithographed at Belgaum, and found that the principal disagreement between the last two is due to this source. The second however appears to