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Kavi Harichand Kunje of Bombay has lately brought out an 

 edition of the SaiiksJiepa SanJcarajaya of Madhava Acharya with a 

 commentary by Dhanapati Surf, entitled " The Dimdima." The text 

 is in verse and contains, in 16 cantos, a poetical account of the life o£ 

 Sankara Acharya. The first canto gives an introduction ; the 2nd, an 

 account of the birth of Sankara ; the 3rd, a conversation of the gods 

 with S'iva in which the latter promises to appear in flesh as Sankara ; the 

 4th, a description of the boyhood of Sankara ; the 5th, his assumption 

 of asceticism or Sannyasa ; the 6th, the extent of his learning ; the 7th, 

 an account of the Vedanta Darsana ; the 8th and the 9tb, the polemics of 

 Sankara with Mandana Misra and his wife Saraswati ; the 10th narrates 

 a story about the life of Sankara entering the dead body of a king in 

 order to enjoy the society of his wife ; the 11th contains the substance of 

 his disputations with Ugra Bhairava ; the 12th, an account of his taking 

 Hastamalaka and others as his disciples; the 13th, his teaching of the Ve- 



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