amplifications of the critique of difference in Mandana's Brahman. siddhi. Mandana's view that istasadhanatoa is widhyartha is found used even by Suresvara b in criticising the Mimamsa view that all the vedic texts should be understood to teach directly or indirectly some form of activity. All the distinctive features of what is known as the Vadcaspatiprasthda in the post-Sakara literature are really inherited from Mandana's Brahmasiddhi. An impartial estimate of Mandana's works would certainly result in a full vindi cation of the claim which Mandana himself puts forward in the concluding verse of his Brahasiddhi-in the lines:
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SECTION IV.
THE COMMENTARIES ON THE BRAHMASIDDHI.
So far, four commentaries are known to have been written on Mandana's Bradurasiddhi. The earliest of them is the Tationsa piesa by Vacaspatimisra. written in the former half of the 9th century A.D. It is known only through references, 986 and no manuscript of this commentary has yet been discovered to exist anywhere at the present moment. All that can be said about the Tattuasamiksh is that it is an extensive a nd learned work written in the same characteristically rhythmic and stately style that readers of Vacaspati's available works are familiar with. Cit sukha, who fourished in the beginning of the 13th century, wrote a brief commentary on the Brachanasiddhi, called Abhipraya-prakaska and it is available in manuscriptpat in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras. Anandapurna alias Vidyas४ gara, wrote, in the latter part of the 6th century, a copious conmentary on the Brahmasiddhi, called Bhaduasiddhi, and this also is available in manuscript 907 in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras. The commentary on the Brahmasiddhi, now published in this edition as Part II, is by one Saikhapani, about whom nothing definite is known. The only information available about this commentator from a Malabar tradition is that he was a Nambudiri Brahmin of Malabar. In one of the Manuscripts of Saikhapani's commentary, which is noticed in Part II 968 of the Adyar Library
catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, the name " Samiksplhaka” is
Brrhad. Vart, (Sambandhavartika), verses 632 and 637
Bhimati N.S.P., p. I०2०, epilogic verse 3
Tri. Cat. R. No3853
Do 3967,
See p. 47 in the catalogue published for the Adyar Library, Adyar, Madra, in 1928
