Sri Vallabhacharya - Pushti Darshan

The school of Vallabhacharya 11
portion being supplied by his second son, Vitthalanatha.' Vallabha seems to have first written a more extensive
commentary on the Brahma-Sutra. which may be described as Brhadbhasya (long commentary),7 and then made a
summary of this in the form of what is known as Anubhasya (short commentary) . The only available commentary on
the Jaimini-Sutra is on I. 1. I and II. I, and it begins with forty-two verses, which summarize the discussion of the
bhasya on the first Sutra.8 The Commentary on the Bhagavata called Subodhini, as now available, is on the first three
skand. as (books) .a part of the fourth skandha (vi. six chapters and a portion of 13 verses only of the seventh chapter'),
the tenth skandha, and a part of the eleventh skandha (viz.. six chapters and only one verse of the fifth chapter). There
is also another important work called Tattvarthadipa, popularly known as Nibandha, with Vallabha."& own gloss
called Prakasa which is divided into three parts known as Sastrath, Sarvanirnaya and Bhagwadarth. The Prakasa is
complete so far as the first two parts are concerned; but of the third part it is available only up to the thirty-third verse
of the fourth section. Vitthalanatha tried to fill up the gal" by supplying the gloss on the situations following, But
unfortunately even his commentary is available only up to the 135th verse of the fifth section. Sastrarth discusses the
content of the Gita; Sarvanirnaya discusses different philosophical topics; and Bhagwatarth explains the subject
matter of tile Bhagvata in a- very general way. Vallabha following Bopadeva,' -holds the
6. G. H. Bhatt, 'Double Authorship of Anubhasya Proceedings of the, Fourth All-India Oriental Conference, pp.
799-806.
7. A portion of the commentary on the Brahmasutra, III. is and IIl. 2.1.12, published in an old magazine, now' defunct,
Pusti.Bhakti-Sudha (Vol. V. Vo. 19 to Vol. VI. No.6), was claimed to be a fragment of Vallabhcarya
Brhadbhasya; but the claim is unjustifiable as the printed text is a fake, written by some modern scholar. "
8. The available portion is published in the magazine Pusti Bhakti Sudha, Vol. V, 2 Vol VIII, Nos.2
9. Bopadeva, Harilila, XII. 17.