Essay name: Srikara Bhashya (commentary)
Author: C. Hayavadana Rao
The Srikara Bhashya, authored by Sripati Panditacharya in the 15th century, presents a comprehensive commentary on the Vedanta-Sutras of Badarayana (also known as the Brahmasutra). These pages represent the introduction portion of the publication by C. Hayavadana Rao.
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INTRODUCTION
of the Pushtim盲rga, the name given to the primary doctrine
of Vallabha.
贬颈蝉鈥楢苍耻产丑补蝉丑测补'.
About his Brahma-Sutra Bhashya, a few more words
have to be added. It is called Anubhashya,29 because it is
written briefly. Vallabha is said to have written another
commentary (Bhashya) of which only a portion is said to
be available.30 Mr. P. S. T. P膩thak, who has edited the
Anubhashya, says that he has filled in the gaps found in
this work from the fragments of the other commentary he
was able to secure. He also states that much of the matter
contained in his other commentary has also been incorporat-
ed by him in his commentary called the B膩lab艒dhini, which
really makes up Vol. II of his edition. Vallabha, however,
was not the sole author of the Anubhashya. It is held by
some that while the first eleven Sutras-upto and inclusive
of Anandamayabhyasat-was composed by him, the rest
of this work, upto its very end, was written by his son
Vitthala. Whether this is so or not, the fact that Vitthala
was part author of the Bhashya appears to be acknowledged
by him in his comments on III. 2. 34, Sth膩na vis膿-
sh膩t prak膩s膩divat. Mr. Pathak points out that from this
S奴tra onwards, the Anubhashya upto its end was composed
by Vitthala (Anubhashya, II. 47).
This is so despite the fact that the colophons to the
work uniformly read that "this work, being a commentary
on the Brahma-Sutras, entitled the Anubhashya, was
composed in accordance with the school of V膿davy膩sa by
Vallabh膩ch膩rya." Evidently, though Vitthal膿sa composed
part of the Bhashya, it having been commenced by his
father, he composed the colophon in his name, or may be,
left the original colophon untouched. This inference
29 Edited by Pandit Sridhar Tryambak Pathak, Shastri, Deccan
College, Poona, in two Parts, in the Bombay Sanskrit and Pr盲krit
Series, 1921, of which it forms Vol. LXXXI.
30 Was this the first commentary written by him of which Anu-
bhashya was a short suminary? Cf. Anandatirtha, of whose Brahma-
S奴tra Bhashya his Anubh膩shya is a further exposition,
