Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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Vishnu who is represented as the supremo God. The Vedanta has what are called three Prag.
thânas or sources (literally, The thres Prasthậnas. starting points), viz. the Upanishads, the Brahmasútra by Bâdarâyana, and the Bhagavadgîtâ and such other episodes from the Mahâbhârata and the Purânas. Hence it is necessary that each system should have its own way of interproting these treatises; and accordingly each bas its own Bhashyas or authoritative commentaries on them. The works of Samkarâchârya on these three sets of originals existing in our collection have been noticed, and I shall now proceed to examine those
of Anandatîrtha. Out of the Works based on the forty-four works mentioned Upanishads.
above geven are Ânandatîrtha's Bhâshyas on soven of the principal Upanishads, two of them having glosses by two of his successors. Our manuscript of the Bhâshya on the Brihadâran
yaka, which is the largest of the Works based on the
the Upanishads, is incomplete. We Brahmasútra.
have a copy of Anandatîrtha's Bhashya on the Brahmasútra, (Nos. 704–706), of what is called his Anuvyâkhyâna of it which is of the nature of an independent treatise expounding the contents of the Sûtra, (No. 709), and of the Anubhâshya or a summary of the Sûtra, (No. 708). Ânandatîrtha's treatises are generally very short, but there are large commentaries on them, princi
pally by Jayatîrtha, the sixth Jayatirtha.
in the succession list who died in 1190 Saka or 1268 A.D. Jayatîrtha's name before he was raised to the pontifical seat was Dhondo Raghunatha, and he was a native of Mangaļavedhem near Pandharpur. In the collection there are manuscripts of Jayatîrtha's commentary on the Brahmasútra Bhashya entitled Tattvaprakâśikâ, (No. 679), and of two commentaries on this again ono