Here are a few works which might quote, refer to, or be inspired by, the SDS (a closer look at each in this regard is still needed).
1° The Sarvadarśanakaumudī of the advaitin Mādhavasarasvatī
(South Konkan, to be dated c. 1480-1560 AD according to M.S. Bhat, "Avyayārtha-Saṅgraha of Mādhava
Sarasvatī, JASB 52-53, 1977-78, p. 39-43; cf. Potter EIPh I, p. 235, VI, p. 651, and K. Madhava Krishna Sarma, ALB 5/4, 1941, p. 181-188
not seen; he has also authored a Vedāntasārasarvasva)
(on p. i §4 of the English Preface "Sarvadarśanakaumudī" has to be corrected into "°saṃgraha", cf. the
Sanskrit version ibid.)
2° The Sarvamatasaṃgraha of Melputtūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa (Kerala, c. 1560-1656 AD), e
d. M. Madhavan Unni, TSS 245, 1977 (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/20748183.html )
= in
Journal of the Kerala University Oriental Research Institute and Manuscript Library, vol. xxi, part I, 1976, part II, 1977 (
http://www.archive.org/details/journalkeralaun01librgoog ),
that is in the part IA : ed. pp. 3-30 (pp. 4-5, st. 5-20 are here missing, and then repetitions) :
https://archive.org/stream/journalkeralaun01librgoog#page/n9/mode/2up ;
in the part IIA: cover + introd. + ToC and index :
https://archive.org/stream/journalkeralaun01librgoog#page/n387/mode/2up (see "indebtedness to other works"),
where the Bhāṭṭa Pūrvamīmāṃsā is given as the last, highest and best system.
3° As for the so-called Sarvamatasaṃgraha (of Rāghavānanda): Marek Major has devoted a detailed article to this doxography ("Sarvamatasaṃgraha:
an anonymous “Compendium of all systems”", In: Expanding and Merging Horizons: Contributions to South Asian and Cross-Cultural Studies in Commemoration of Wilhelm Halbfass,
ed. K. Preisedanz. Wien : Austrian Academy of Sciences press, 2007, pp. 259-274), underlying a series of textual parallels with the SDS. Here a few remarks challenging his views on the dating of the
SMS (he considers it as a late text, somewhere "after 1700 AD").
The work was edited without author-ascription in the TSS (62:
https://archive.org/details/sarvamatasangraha ).
However, this text is in fact, as I was able myself to discover, a mere portion extracted from a long commentary to the Bh
āgavataP, entitled
Kṛṣṇapadī,
composed by R
āghav
ānanda (Śrīmadbhāgavatam, Śrīrāghav
ānandamuninā
viracitayā 'Kṛṣṇapady
ā'khyayā ṭippaṇyī
ā sametam, Ekādaśadvādaśaskandhau,
Tṛtīyo vibhāgaḥ, Pūrṇatrayīpura:
Saṃskṛtakalāśālanirvāhakasamiti, ŚrīRavivarma
Samskṛta Granthāvali 2[/3], 1964: see pp. 224-248, ad BhgP 11,19.17; the edition of this important
commentary was unfortunately left uncompleted). This explains the logical ascription of the extract (which became "autonomous" in a few manuscripts probably because of its doxographical character) entitled SM(siddh
ānta)S
to R
āghav
ānanda
authorship by Kerala authors (e.g. Kunjunni Raja CKSL p. 7; S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer, KSLB p. 81, 470-1) followed by Potter and Halbfass. And the fact that Melputtūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa refers
to the Kṛṣṇapadī in his Prakriy
āsarvasva (Part IV,
TSS 174 (1954), p. 50, cf. S.
Venkitasubramonia Iyer, Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa's Prakriy
āsarvasva: A critical study, 1972, p. 303
), makes sure that the work of R
āghav
ānanda
is anterior to 1616-1617 AD. Therefore, contra Mejor (p. 264), the common stanza found in the SMS and in the Mānameyodaya (of Melputtūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa) cannot longer allows to consider the
latter as the terminus a quo of the former (if one has "quoted" the other, it is the reverse). And since R
āghav
ānanda is traditionally dated
to the early 14th century by Kerala authors (op. cit. etc. ; post-Madhva at the least), even if there are more reasons to presume that he is later (15th or even rather 16th c. on internal evidences, cf. Mejor and Gerschheimer
2000-1 https://www.persee.fr/doc/ephe_0000-0002_2000_num_113_109_11771 on the SMS,
and Danielson 1980 about R
āghav
ānanda's commentary on the Paramārthasāra;
cf. also R
āghav
ānanda's edited commentaries on the Mukundamā
lā
and
on the Laghustuti), it could be interesting to re-examine the textual relationships between the SDS and the SMS in order to see which one is anterior to the other (and the same for the Sarvasiddh
āntasaṃgraha
ascribed to one
Śaṅkara, variously dated: usually given as prior to both the SMS and the SDS, but dated later, posterior to the SDS, viz. to the 15th c.,
by Gerschheimer [p. 180-1] on the basis of the structure of its contents).
Best wishes,
Christophe
Yes,
that is of course a reference that I should have mentioned. But are there others, different from or after Cannibhaṭṭa?
Dear Johannes,
Anantalal
Thakur, “Cannibhaṭṭa and the authorship
of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha” Bulletin
of the Adyar Library 25(1961):
524–538, gives some citations from the work of Cannibhaṭṭa,
whom he holds to have been the real author.
I'll be most interested if you come up with anything else.
all best,
Matthew
Matthew
Kapstein
Directeur
d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago
Dear colleagues,
Are there Sanskrit texts that quote or refer to the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha? The text was known to Wilson in 1828 and a printed edition
appeared for the first time in 1858. Are there authors during the preceding centuries who show an awareness of the text (apart from copyists who copied it)? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Johannes Bronkhorst
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