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[edit] Sayana's works

Hi, He has written many books. I added there are from copied from Vijayanagara Empire. I have sources for this information in two offline books. You can search on google as well for his works and I am sure you will find atleast few of them. See an online copy of one of the books at http://igmlnet.uohyd.ernet.in:8000/gw_44_5/hi-res/hcu_images/G2.pdf and search for sayana in it. mlpkr 17:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sayana and Madhavacharya - One and the same?

I recently came across the Cārvāka philosophy, and one of the sources of information is a book, the Sarvadarsanasangraha (Internet Archive book-scanning project page) attributed to Madhavacharya who is referred to in this article as Madhava.

My question is - are Sayana and Madhava the same person? The reason I ask is a footnote to the prologue of the book which goes -

Dr. A. C. Burnell, in his preface to his edition of the Vamsa-Brahmana, has solved the riddle of the relation of Madhava and Sayana. Sayana is a pure Dravidian name given to a child who is born after all the elder children have died. Madhava elsewhere calls Sayana his "younger brother", as an allegorical description of his body, himself being the eternal soul. His use of the term Sayana-Madhava here (not the dual) seems to prove that the two names represent the same person. The body seems meant by the Sayana of the third shloka. Mayana was the father of Madhava, and the true reading may be sriman-mayana.

If so, then both articles might have to be merged. Any ideas? Last Contrarian (talk) 20:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I guess we can state that tradition makes Sayana and Madhava brothers, and that according to one theory (A. C. Burnell), the two are in fact identical. dab (𒁳) 20:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)