Many names…many authors were versatile.

Annambhatta (16th CE)

vachaspati Mishra

Raghavendra Yati (16th CE)

Vijayaeendra Tirtha (15th CE)

Abhinavagupta

Krishnavadhuta Pandita (19th CE)

mallinatha

Bellankonda Ramaraya kavi

Shriharsha

Many of them authored works in one or two disciplines but involving many disciplines like Nyaya, Vyakarana, Vedanta, meemamsa etc. For example -

Sudarshana suri

Jayatirtha (14th CE)

Vyasatirtha (15th CE)

Madhusudana Saraswati (15th CE)

The authors participating in the series of dialectics of Nyayamrita-Advaitasiddhi are not only well-versed in many disciplines like Nyaya, Vyakarana, Meemamsa and Vedanta, but employed them in the dialectic works authored by them.

Likewise, the Nyaya and Vyakarana works on Semantics like Vyutpattivada, Vaiyakarana Bhushana Sara, Manjusha etc., require a good acquaintance of many disciplines.

Stalwarts like Adi Shankara, Udayana, Jayanta Bhatta, Madhva, Jagannatha Pandita were not just limited to their domain.

with best regards

shrinivasa varakhedi

Professor and Dean - Shastra Faculty

Karnataka Sanskrit University

Bangalore 18

www.ksu.ac.in

On 05-Nov-2015, at 10:12 pm, David Mellins <dmellins@gmail.com> wrote:

Also Gāgābhaṭṭa (Viśveśvara).

David

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Aleksandar Uskokov <uskokov@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Jiva Gosvamin and Baladeva Vidyabhusana among the Gaudiyas.
Vedantadesika.
Perhaps Sriharsa?
Kind regards
Aleksandar

On Nov 5, 2015 8:27 AM, <hellwig7@gmx.de> wrote:
Dear list members,

I am looking for Sanskrit authors who have written about many (>=3) different topics or in many (>=3) different genres (e.g., poetry, narrative, philosophical, scientific, ...); alternatively for voluminous texts by one author that cover such different topics in separate chapters (i.e., the thematic strata should be easily separable).

Further requirements:
1) Authorship of their works should be consolidated in Indological research.
2) Texts should not be too short.
3) Texts should not be collections of former works or of citations only, but "really" be written by these authors.
4) The older, the better!
5) Texts should be edited or - even better - already digitized.

The first (and actually only) author that came to my mind is Kshemendra. Do you have any other ideas? Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Regards, Oliver

--- Oliver Hellwig, University of Düsseldorf

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