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1250) wrote the Ātmapurāna which brings together the gist of the Upanishads in a standard work in anustup verse; he also wrote commentaries on the principal Upanishads and on the Brahmasūtra-bhāshya of Śankara. The Sarvamatasangraha of Rāghavānanda Muni of Kerala is an epitome of several systems of Hindu philosophy, and a forerunner of the better known Sarva-darśana-sangraha of Mādhava Ācārya. Rāghavānanda's commentaries on Paramārtha-sāra, on Mukundamālā, and on the Bhāgavata Purāna called Krishna-padī exhibit his high learning in several branches of literature. This task of commenting on ancient classics and refining and restating doctrines went on steadily from generation to generation, and we can only note the most prominent works in this later derivative literature. Such were: the *Vivarana-prameya-sangraha*, and *Jivan-muktiviveka* of Vidyāraṇya and the *Pañcadaśī* ascribed to his teacher Bhāratītīrtha, but held by some to be in fact the work of the pupil; the *Sarvadarśana-sangraha* of Sāyaṇa-Mādhava which establishes the superiority of Advaita by reviewing many of the rival systems of philosophy; Ānandapūrṇa's (*c.* 1410) commentaries on the *Khaṇḍana-khaṇḍa-khādya*, *Brahmasiddhi*, and *Vivarana* as well as his *Nyāyacandrikā*; Appaya Dīkṣita's sub-commentary *Vedānta-kalpataru-parimala* and his *Siddhāntaleśa sangraha*, a compendium of the various schools of advaitic thought, and *Madhvatantra-mukhamardana*, a polemic against the dualism of Madhva;