Sanskrit Manuscripts : Tattvānusandhāna

Mahādeva Sarasvatī, Mahādevānanda Sarasvatī

Sanskrit Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'>A 19th century paper manuscript of Mahādeva Sarasvatī's <i>Tattvānusandhāna</i>. Mahādeva may have lived towards the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century, and is the author of another Advaita work, the <i>Advaitacintākaustubha</i> (Dasgupta 1932: 56), the <i>Mīmāṃsānyāyasaṃgraha</i>, a compendium of principles of Mīmāṃsā in the Bhāṭṭa tradition (Benson 2010), and the <i>Sāṃkhyasūtravṛttisāra</i> (see Benson 2010: 23, fn. 37). The <i>Tattvānusandhāna</i>, which includes four sections (<i>pariccheda</i>) was allegedly popular: it has at least three commentaries in Sanskrit and was translated early on in Tamil and Hindi (NCC, vol.8: 74-75). </p>