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much more tlian a thousand years. He is reputed to have been contem- 

 porary with SuDHANWA, but the chronology of that prince's reign is not 

 accurately determined.* 



Next in eminence among the commentators of the Mimdnsd is Paut'ha- 

 sarat'hi misua, who has professedly followed the guidance of Cumarila 

 Bhatta. His commentary, entitled Sdstra-dipicd, has been amply ex- 

 pounded in a gloss bearing the title of Mai/uc'ha-mdld, by lSumanat'ha, a 

 Cdnidtaci Brahman, whose elder brother was high priest of the celebrated 

 temple at Vencatddri (or Vencalagiri^.f Paut'ha-sarat'hi is author likewise 

 of tlie Nydya-ratna-mdld and other known works. 



A compendious gloss on the text of Jaimixi, following likewise the same 

 guidance (that of Cumaiula) is the 7J/t(7//«-(-/(/)/crt of C'handa-deva, author 

 of a separate and ampler treatise, entitled Mimdnsd-caustuhha, to which he 

 repeatedly refers for a fuller elucidation of matters briefly touched upon in 

 his consise but instructive gloss. TJiis work is posterior to that of Madhava 

 AcHARYA, who is sometimes quoted in it, and to Paut'ha-sarat'hi, who is 

 more frequently noticed. 



The Mmuinsd-nydya-viveca is another commentary by a distinguished 

 author, Bhavanat'ha misra. I speak of tliis and of the foregoing as com- 

 mentaries, because they follow the order of the text, recite one or more of 

 the apliorisms from every section, and explain the subject, but without 

 regularly expounding every word, as ordinary scholiasts, in a perpetual 

 gloss. 



Among numerous other commentaries on Jaimini's text, the Nydydvali- 

 didhili of Raghavananda is not to be omitted. It contains an excellent 

 interpretation of the siitras, which it expounds word by word, in the manner 

 of a perpetual comment. It is brief, but clear ; leaving nothing unex- 

 plained, and wandering into no digressions. 



It results from the many revisions which the text and exposition of it 

 have undergone, with amendments, one while arriving by a different pro- 

 cess of reasoning at the same conclusion, another time varying the question 

 and deducing from an unchanged text an altered argument for its solution, 

 that the cases (adhicaratias) assume a very diversified aspect in the hands of 

 the many interpreters of the Mimdnsd. 



A summary or paraphrase of jAiairNi's doctrine was put into verse by an 



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* Preface to Wilson's Dictionary, p. xviii. + 135 miles west from Madras. 



