VIDP. S. N......... KENA UPANISHAD WITH LIBRARY F BHASHYA I INTRODUCTION According to orthodox arrangement Kenopanişad is placed after īļāvāsyopanişad, though modern scholars hold that Kena chronologically belongs to the earliest period of the Upanişads, and Isa to the second period.' Veukatapatha commented only on the Isa Upanişad, and it was left to Raugarāmānuja to comment on the other important upanişads. Amongst other Upanişads, Sudarśana Sūri otherwise known as Śrutaprakāśikācārya had cominented on the Subālopanişad, because of its extreme importauce to the understandiug of the integral or organic philosophy of the Upavişads. Sri Raugarāmiānuja, like so many others of his kind, led a quiet life and during a period that was not noted for any thing extraordinary in the life of the community to which he belonged. Neither the date of liis birth nor of his demise has been recorded anywhere, which appears very strange when we remember that he was well known as a scholar of repute especially in all the branches of learning necessary for his ministry. The date however can be fixed roughly as he was the disciple of Anantācārya, the fifteenth occupant of the Garupitha reckoned from Sri Rāmānuja in the Vadagalai line. He mentions Doddayācārya or Mahārya or Maltācārya (c. 1540--1565) the famous author of Pārāśarya Vijaya, (a refutation of Appayya Dikşita's Nyāya Rakşāmani) and of the 1, Winteraitz: History of Sanskrit Literature Vol. I. 2. cf. Iśāvāysopanişad Bhāsya. ed. and translated. S.V.O. Series No. 5. 3. Des cen, cat. XIX. 7877 Madras Oriental Mss. Lib. and Aufrecht Cat. Catal, I. 283,
