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44.2 Mr. Coreprooxe on the Philosophy of the Hindus. much more than a thousand years. He is reputed to have been contem- porary with SupHanwa, but the chronology of that prince’s reign is not accurately determined.*

Next in eminence among the commentators of the Mimdnsd is PArt’Ha- sARAT’HI Misra, who has professedly followed the guidance of CumARiLa Buatta. His commentary, entitled Sdstra-dipicé, has been amply ex- pounded in a gloss bearing the title of Mayzic’ha-mdla, by SoManAt’HA, a Carnitact Brahman, whose elder brother was high priest of the celebrated temple at Véncatddri (or Véncatagiri).t PAnt’ua-sArav’nt is author likewise of the Nydya-ratna-malé and other known works.

A compendious gloss on the text of Jarmint, following likewise the same guidance (that of CumArita) is the Bhatta-dipicd of C’uanpa-péva, author of a separate and ampler treatise, entitled Mimdnsd-caustubha, to which he repeatedly refers for a fuller elucidation of matters briefly touched upon in his consise but instructive gloss. This work is posterior to that of MApuava acHArya, who is sometimes quoted in it, and to PArr’Ha-sArat’HI, who is more frequently noticed.

The Mimdnsd-nydya-vivéca is another commentary by a distinguished author, BuavanAr’na misra._ I speak of this and of the foregoing as com- mentaries, because they follow the order of the text, recite one or more of the aphorisms 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 Jarminr’s text, the Nydydvali- didhiti of RAGHavANANDA is not to be omitted. It contains an excellent interpretation of the szétras, 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 (adhicaranas) assume a very diversified aspect in the hands of the many interpreters of the Mimdnsd.

A summary or paraphrase of Jarmmt’s doctrine was put into verse by an ee ee ee ee ‘ te
 * Preface to Wilson’s Dictionary, p. xviii. + 135 miles west from Madras.