dealing with the life of Sahkara and his disciples and written by vidvadbalaka-kas-laksmanasastri, about the end of the 8th century, is available in print. The late MrT.S. Narayana Sastri, in his incomplete work on the age of Sarmkara, speaks " of ten Saikwravijayas and refers '192 2 also to certain other sources of information about Sankara and his disciples. Almost all these works refer to Mandana and Suresvara. Some of them 8 identify Mandana with Suresvara and the Sankaravijaya ( ascribed to Vidyaranya proceeds further to identify Suresvara with Visva. rupa, Mandana and Bhattomveka. Some others distinguish Mandana and Suresvara as two distinct individuals, the latter being known by the name of Visvarupa in his grihaslihorama. In one of these works, Mandana is referred to as Kumarila's sister's husband t. Another work i states that Mandana was living in Vidyalayadasa, identified with the place called Cijalacta4. Citsukha recordsin his Tattvapradipikaan old and reliable tradition that Bhattomyeka is identical with Bhavabhuti °8, the author of the Malatmadhava and other dramas. Almost all the traditions embodied in these works are unanimous in associating Mandana and Visvarupa with Kumarila as his pupils, in identify ing Visvarupa with Suresvara and ascribing to him the Miskarnyasidad and the Varticus on Sadikara's bhasyas on the Brhadaranyaka and Taittiriya Upanisads, and in not ascribing the Brasiddhi to Suresvara or Visvarupa. The traditions in these works, which come down to the level of pseudo-biographies containing more of legendary and less of historical material must be discarded as unreliable in so far as they come into conflict with the weighty internal evidences in authoritative Vedantic works, to which attention was drawn in the foregoing paragraphs. How unreliable the materials contained in the Sard karavijaya attributed to Vidyaranya are may be easily seen from the way in which Vidyaranya, in his Vivaraapranakyasaigraha and Vartikasara, differentiates Mandana, the author of the Brahmasiddh, from Suresvara, otherwise known as VisvarupA. carya and from the arguments adduced by some writers to show
the spurious "p character of the Sikarouijaya ascribed to
" The Age of Sathare, by T. S. Narayana Sastri, B.A., S.L., Thompon & co.
Madra1916Par I, chapter III, pp. 3 १od 3. P. 3
The Age of Sankar, by MrT. S. Narayana Sastri, Part I, chapter III, 34
See footnote t88 supra. M. 8-6 D.C. No. 438o.
Abhan, S.S. No. 22, Canto7, Peries 3 to 17
Gormvatsalaya, Sri Vat Vits Prese, Srirangao, Canto II, verses 43 t० 50,
See footnote ¥88, sup020-8.
See footnote Y&8, supra c-20-5 TD..S.P,.N495465and com, link8 to a . thereon.
The age of Satarby Mr. R. S. Niriyapa Sisti, Part I, chip. Im, pp. This to 159; J.O.R.M., Vol. I, 9. " 'Thesdayof Si Silkaranya, pp. Ao ad Aam.
