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Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

1933

Madhava the brother of Sayana was according to these Scholars the writer of certain chapters of the 'Pancadasi' of the 'Jivanmuktiviveka' and other works a second Madhava who was a righting minister of the Vijayanagar Kings wrote the commentary on the Suta-Samhita while a third Madhava being the son of the first Madhava's brother Sayana was the author of the 'Sarvadarsana-sarhgraha.' T [...] That I have taken a lot of pains over the history of this teacher is due to the fact that a study of the Bengal Vaisnava literature has led me to the belief that if one is to trace the origin of the peculiar cult of bhakti - tinged with erotic emotionalism - of the Bengal school of Vaisnavism to the Bhagavata Purana he will have to look for the intermediate stages of development to works like [...] When challenged to cite some other passage (gadya) in the V chapter according to the correct text the Acarya did so ; and on examination of a number of manuscripts the passage was found in one of them.1 This episode simply illustrates the wide poplarity enjoyed by the Puraria the creeping in of different readings of the text if not also the existence of distinct' recensions' of the text alre [...] Abhinavagupta the welknown exponent of the Dhvani school and the illustrious champion of the Prahjabhijna school of Kashmir Saivism who flourished towards the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 1 1th century was intimately acquainted with our Purana to which he refers by name3 and quotes a few passages in the course of his arresting gloss on the Gita* :— Tift =^ ?WT TT?T Wt 5T1»tf V& M [...] 157) are wedded to the belief that the author of the Bhagavata was a South Indian and that the Purana must have originated in the extreme South (presumably on the banks of the Tamraparnl to which reference is made by the author of the Purana !).
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Authors

Dr. R.N. Dandekar

Pages
167
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ix D.R. Bhanderkar, A.B Gajendragadkar view
The Visnusvamin Riddle
161-181 Amarnath Ray view
The Date of The Bhagavata Purana
182-218 B.N Sarma view
Suttee
219-240 Sakuntala Bao view
The Two Bhagavatas
241-249 S. Sastri view
Miscellanea
250-273 unknown view
Article
i-xxix unknown view
I. List of Journals Periodicals and Institutions on Exchange
i-iv unknown view
II. List of Members of the Institute
v-xvi unknown view

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