A History of Sanskrit Literature c18.30

c18.30

The oldest commentary in existence on the *Mīmāṃsā Sūtras* is the *bhāshya* of Çabara Svāmin, which in its turn was commented on about 700 a.d. by the great Mīmāṃsist Kumārila in his *Tantra-vārttika* and in his *Çloka-vārttika*, the latter a metrical paraphrase of Çabara's exposition of the first aphorism of Patanjali. Among the later commentaries on the *Mīmāṃsā Sūtras* the most important is the *Jaiminīya-nyāya-mālā-vistara* of Mādhava (fourteenth century).