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

[Jan E.M. Houben]

Unfortunately I don't have such a list. But since
the context of the passage is the difficulties of
the editor Shama Shastry in obtaining sufficient
manuscripts for his edition (en passant he
criticizes unnamed gopayitaara.h of the
manuscripts, i.e., apparently certain librarians)
the passage rather means:

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

"B.B.'s commentary (i.e. section in the
commentary) on the four last anuvaakas of the
second a.s.taka (= kaa.n.da, cf. Gonda Ved. lit.
p. 350) of the TB that speaks of va.m;sa and that
belonged to (was in the possession of) a certain
(specific, but, according to good Brahminical
custom, unnamed) Pa.n.dit living on the bank of
the Godaavarii, was difficult to obtain."

In the section mentioned by Shama Shastry we do
find now and then references to offspring, to the
origin of the world, etc. but this can hardly
suffice to make this section qualify as a
va.m;sa-braahma.na "braahma.na dealing with
authorities and their lineages" (as, f.i., ;SB
14.5.5.20-22 = BAU 2.6), so I suspect it is
really only the commentary of B.B. that contains
in the mentioned specific section important
remarks on (B.B.'s? the Taitt. tradition's?)
va.m;sa that Shama Shastry was eager to edit on
the basis of sufficient ms evidence.

Best, Jan


--- Arlo Griffiths
<A.Griffiths at LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL> 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
>
> CNWS / Instituut Kern
> Universiteit Leiden
> Postbus 9515
> 2300 RA  Leiden
> the Netherlands
>
> tel.: +31-71-5274128






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�cole Pratique des Hautes �tudes,
� la Sorbonne,
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