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S'di-iraca-mmdnsd-bMshya. It has been annotated and interpreted by a herd 

 of commentators ; and among others, and most noted, by Vachespati 

 mis'ra, in the Bhdmati or S'driraca-bhdshya-vibhdga. 



This is the same Vachespati, whose commentaries on the Sdnc'hya-cdricd 

 of Is'wARA CHANDRA, and OH the text and gloss of Patanjali's Yoga and 

 Gotama's Nydya, were noticed in former essays.* He is the author of 

 otlier treatises on dialectics ^Nydyd), and of one entitled (Tatwa-vindu) on 

 the purva mimdnsd, as it is expounded by Bhat't'a. All his works, in every 

 department, are held in high and deserved estimation. 



Vachespati's exposition of S'ancara's gloss, again, has been amply an- 

 notated and explained in the Veddnta-calpataru of Analananda, surnamed 

 Vydsdsrama ; whose notes, in their turn, become the text for other scholia: 

 especially a voluminous collection under the title of Parimala, or Veddnta- 

 calpatai-u-parimala, by Apyaya-dicshita (author of several other works); and 

 an abridged one, under that of Veddnta-calpataru-nianjari, by Vidyanat'ha- 

 bhat't'a. 



Other commentaries on S'ancara's gloss are numerous and esteemed, 

 thougli not burdened with so long a chain of scholia upon scholia : for 

 instance, tlie Brahma-vidydbhararia by Adwaitananda,! and the Bhdshya- 

 ratna-prabhd by Govindananda : both works of acknowledged merit. 



These multiplied expositions of the text and of the gloss furnish an 

 inexhaustible fund of controversial disquisition, suited to the disputatious 

 schoolmen of India. On many occasions, however, they are usefully 

 consulted, in succession, for annotations supplying a right interpretation of 

 obsure passages in S'ancara's scholia or in Vyasa's text. 



Another perpetual commentary on the sutras of the S'driracd by a dis- 

 tinguished author, is the work of the celebrated Ramanuja, the founder of 



♦ Vol. i. pp. 24, 25, 93. 



f It is by Mr. Ward named veddnta sulra vydc'hyd by Bkahme-vidyabharan'a, mistaking 

 the title of the work for the appellation of the author. Yet it is expressly affirmed in the 

 rubric and colophon to be the work of AdwaitAnanda, who abridged it from an ampler com- 

 mentary by Kamananda Tirt'ha. The mistake is the more remarkable, as the same Ad- 

 WAITANANDA Was preceptor of Sadananda, whose work, the veddnia-sura, Mr. ^\ard 

 attempted to translate ; and the only part of Sadananda's preface, which is preserved in the 

 version, is that preceptor's name. Mr. Ward's catalogue of treatises extant belonging to this 

 school of philosophy exhibits other like errors. He puts Mddhava for Madhiisudana, the name 

 of an author; converts a commentary (the muctavalT) into an abridgment; and turns the text 

 (mula) of the vcdanta-sdra into its essence. Ward's Hindus, vol. iv. pp. 172, 173. 



