chapter one a survey of sanskrit commentary literature in kerala

30Sa´kara’s BraÅmas£trabh¡Àya has served as a basic document for furthercommentaries and sub commentaries of great philosophic insight and logicalthroughness. Some of them are noted below:Anandagiri wrote a commentary called Ny¡yanir¸aya, while Govind¡nanda(16 th CenturyAD) wrote another one known as Ratnaprabh¡. V¡caspatimi¿ra wrotea commentary on Sa´kara’s bh¡À»a known as Bh¡mat¢. On it Amal¡nanda (13 thcentury AD) wrote his Kalpataru which is commented upon by Appayyad¢kÀitain his Kalpataruparima½a.Padmap¡da another disciple of Sa´kara wrote a commentary known asPaµcap¡dik¡ dealing with the first four sutras. Sure¿var¡c¡rya wroteNaiÀkarmmasiddhi, which is partly in prose and partly in verse and consists offour chapters exposing the nature of avidy¡. Jµ¡nottamami¿ra’s T¢k¡ calledBh¡vatatvaprak¡¿ik¡ is well known exposition of NaiÀkarmmasiddhi. Its othersubcommentaries are Jµ¡n¡m¤ta’s Vidy¡surabhi, Akhil¡tman’sNaiÀkarmmasiddhivivara¸a and R¡madatta’s S¡r¡rtha. Prak¡¿¡tman wrote acommentary on Paµcap¡dik¡ known as Paµcap¡dik¡vivara¸a which has two