The Śaṅkarācāryacarita has been published several times before Antarkar's edition  (Trichur [Kerala Publ. House] 1914, 1926, Kumbakonam [Sri Komalamba Mudranalaye] 1926, Poona [Citrasala Mudranalaye] 1931; the text publ. in 1966 by K.N.M. Divakaran Namputiri has been reissued recently in Calicut Sanskrit Series 50, 2013 [Vedāṅgadīpti (Collected works of K.N.M. D N.], pp. 153-215). According to K. Kunjunni Raja (CKSL pp. 151 fn. 150; 206, 243, with reference to Ullur KSC), Govindanātha was "a disciple of Rāma Vāriyar belonging to the Karikkāṭṭu Vāriyam in South Malabar" and is also the author of a yamaka poem Gaurīkalyāṇa depicting the mariage of Pārvatī and Śiva (unpublished ; in 3 āśvāsas, noted for its simplicity and lucidity). This Rāma Vāriyar of Karikkat was a contemporary of  Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa of Melputtūr, so G "must have flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century A.D."
G. recognized himself (1.6-7) that his work is based on Vyāsācalīya's Śaṅkaravijaya (publ. Madras GOML series 24, 1954), cf. Antarkar 2004, pp. 40 (+ 95 fn.), 48, etc., Pande 1994, pp. 21-22.

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CV

Le 2 juin 2015 à 21:39, David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle@gmail.com> a écrit :

Dear Olga,

W. R. Antarkar, who is/was the world's leading expert on the various Śaṅkara-vijayas, in his English Introduction to his Sanskrit edition of Govindanātha's Śaṅkarācāryacaritam has a few paragraphs about him. This was published in Bhāratīya Vidyā, vol. 52, 1992, pp. 55-141. If needed, I can send you a scan of this.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Olga Nowicka <olga.nowicka00@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to ask if perhaps anybody knows something
more about Govindanātha from Kerala, the author of
Śaṅkara's hagiography - Śaṅkarācāryacarita also called 
Keralīya-Śaṅkaravijaya (dated for ca. 17th century, although this dating is
rather doubtful)?
I would be really grateful for any information,

Olga Nowicka



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