Bha.t.ta Bhaaskara Mi;sra's Bhaa.sya on the Taittiriiya Braahma.na

[Frits Staal]

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Frits

At 11:41 AM 8/21/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Indologists,
>
>On the first page of his Upodghaata to the second volume of the 1921 Mysore
>devanaagarii edition of the Taittiriiya Braahma.na (which I am using in the
>1985 Motilal Banarsidass reprint, p. ix), R. Shama Sastry writes:
>
>godaavariitiirasthasya kasyacana pa.n.ditasya va.m;savada.m
>taittiriiyabraahma.nasya dvitiiyaa.s.takasyaantimaanaa.m catur.naam
>anuvaakaanaa.m bha.t.tabhaaskarabhaa.sya.m duraasadam aasiit |
>
>`it was difficult to obtain Bha.t.ta Bhaaskara's commentary on the four last
>anuvaakas of the second a.s.taka of the Taittiriiyabraahma.na as something
>taught in the lineage of any pa.n.dit living on the bank of the Godaavarii'
>[va.m;savada- translated in accordance with a suggestion by Haru Isaacson]
>
>Hence this edition supplies Saaya.na's comm. (the `Maadhaviiyabhaa.sya') for
>those anuvaakas:
>
>ata;s ca tatra saaya.nabhaa.syam eva nive;sitam |
>
>And apparently for other parts too:
>
>ko;saantaraalaabhaac ca taittiriiyasa.mhitaayaa.m ca braahma.ne ara.nyake ca
>lupta.m du.spa.tha.m ca bha.t.tabhaaskarabhaa.syam apahaaya
>saaya.nabhaa.syam eva nyave;si |
>
>In fact the page-headers of vol. II of the Mysore edition suddenly change
>between p. 183 and 185 from ``Tattiriiyabraahma.nam
>Bha.t.tabhaaskarabhaa.syopetam'' to ``Maadhaviiyabhaa.syopetam''. This is
>around TB 2.4.5.44 = Aanandaa;srama ed. 2.4.5.1, not anywhere near the last
>4 anuvaakas of TB 2 mentioned by R. Shama Sastry (several prapaa.thakas with
>their own anuvaakas follow!), nor anywhere near the place where the
>commentary of Saaya.na actually seems to start being printed.
>
>Does anybody know the exact extent of the portions printed with Bha.t.ta
>Bhaaskara Mi;sra's commentary, or can anyone point me to a source where they
>have been listed? I have checked, as far as I am able to do so, Tsuji's
>Genzon Yajuruweda Bunken / Existent Yajurveda-Literature, to no avail.
>
>Is anybody aware of the existence of complete versions of his commentary on
>TB either in manuscript or in print?
>
>-- Arlo Griffiths
>
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