A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras
by M. Seshagiri Sastri | 1901 | 1,488,877 words
These pages represent "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras"—a scholarly work that systematically details the vast collection of Sanskrit manuscripts held by the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Madras, now Chennai, India. The catalogue serves as an essential ...
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iv INTRODUCTION work was brought out with an English translation and Introduction by Rao Bahadur Professor M. Rangacharya, Curator of this Library in 1904. The manuscript under reference contains also a commentary which is simple and useful for readers. The commentator is Sesagovinda, son of Sesapandita and disciple of Madhusudanasarasvati, who flourished in the 16 th century A.D. In addition to the facts pointed out in his Introduction by Professor Rangacharya, the following point is worthy of note: The Sarvasiddhantasangraha while dividing the Mimansasastra into two parts, designates, the first part, i.., the 12 chapters of Jaimini, as the Purvamimamsa and the remaining 8 chapters constituting the second part, as the Uttaramamansa, and again, while dividing the Uttarammums into two parts, viz., the Devatakandu and the Jnanakanda it attributes the authorship of both to Vyasa (Vide stanzas 17 to 20 of I Chapter). vimsatyadhyayayukta sa pratipadyarthato dvidha | kami purvamimamsa dvadasadhyayavistrta || asyam sutram jaiminiyam savaram bhasyamasya tu | mimamsavartikam bhai bhattacaryakrtam hi tat || tacchisyo'rupabhedena savarasya matantaram | prabhakaraguruscakre taddhi prabhakaram matam | bhavatyuttaramimamsa tvastadhyayi dvidha ca sa | devatajnanakandabhyam vyasasutram dvayoh samam || " But this method of dividing Mimamsa into two parts and designating the first 12 chapters as the Purvamimamsa and the remaining 8 chapters as the Uttaramimamsa, and the attribution of the authorship of the Divatakanda to Vyasa are opposed to the traditions preserved in and propagated by, the Visistadvaita school of Vedanta. According to Sri Ramanuja's Sribhasya the first 16 chapters