The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

100 - The Philosophical Systems
the Pāṇini office translation of the Mīmāṁsa Śāstra. [64] The late Dr.
G. Thibaut’s remarks on Bodhāyana seem apposite here.
‘It appears that Rāmānuja claims, and by Hindu writers is generally
admitted, to follow in his bhāṣya the authority of Bodhāyana, who
had composed a on the Sūtras. Thus we read in the beginning of
the Śrībhāṣya (Pandit, New Series vii, p. 163)
“Bhagavad-Bodhāyanapūrvacāryaḥ
samkikṣipus tan-matānusārēṇa sūtrākṣarāṇi
vyākhyāsyantē.”
Whether the Bodhāyana to whom that is ascribed is to be
identified with the author of the Kalpa-sūtra, and other works, cannot
at present be decided. But that an ancient on the Sūtras connected
with Bodhāyana’s name actually existed, there is no reason to doubt.
Short quotations from it are met with in a few places in the Śrī-bhāṣya,
and, as we have seen above, Śaṁkara’s commentators state that their
addition to Bodhāyana, Rāmānuja appeals to quite a series of ancient
teachers, Pūrvācāryas, who carried on the tradition as the teaching of
the Vēdānta and the meaning of the Sūtras. 62
This makes the position clear that presumably the under
reference is Bodhāyana, and the has reference in this context to
the on the Brahma Sūtras. Is this not the Bhagavān Ācārya
ṣya ii.3, 16? Śaṁkara, 63 in the Vēdānta
Sūtra iii. 3, 53, states clearly that Upavarṣa wrote on both the texts,
Pūrva and Uttara Mīmāṁsa, and Upavarṣa is stated in the
62 Sacred Books of the East, vol. XXXVIII. 268