The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

98 - The Philosophical Systems
Writers on Mīmāṁ
been known of this author and who he was. The Śābara Bhāṣya, the
ea
ṣa.
who followed Upavarṣa because Śabara uses the honorific Bhagavān
before Upavarṣ
ts out
that in other connections Bhagavān and Ācārya are used before the
Dr. Ganganath Jha tried to identify him with Bhavadāsa. As was
pointed out above, Bhavadāsa was the second of the commentators
who commented upon the Pūrva Mīmāṁsa alone. Keith says ‘that the
that an important addition has been made to the teaching of the
Mīmāṁsa in the shape of the introduction of discussions of the
validity of knowledge and its diverse forms.’ Could we not equate the
ṭ
ṭi actually referred to as
Professor Jacobi made the
Maṇ
ṭi seems to throw welcome light
upon the obscurity that has enshrouded the personality of the
re made in regard to
Dasgupta’s History of Indian Philosophy refers [63] to him as having