A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s1.3

c19.s1.3

Coming long after the age of the texts they annotated, these scholars obviously did not always succeed in interpreting them correctly or convincingly; but the most critical of modern scholars cannot deny the debt they owe to the commentaries which recorded the traditional interpretations current in the Vedic-schools of the tenth and fourteenth centuries in South India. Bharatasvāmin's commentary on the Sāmaveda written under Hoysala Rāmanātha also deserves notice among the pre-Sāyaṇa Vedic commentaries.