Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.314

c7.314

Mādhava, who has been just mentioned, with his title Vidyāraṇya “the wilderness of learning”, famous as a fertile author like his younger brother Sāyaṇa, is the author of the extensive commentary on Parāśara, the Parāśarasmṛtivyākhyā, often quoted by later authors and contains a full encyclopaedia of Dharma, particularly also of Vyavahāra¹. In the introduction to this work the author calls himself the Guru and Minister of King Bukka, who is without doubt Bukka I, the famous ruler of Vijayanagara (Hampi on the Tuṅgabhadrā in Bellary) in Southern India; documents regarding this king, according to Hultzsch, cover the period Śaka 1276-93, so that his reign falls in the third quarter of the fourteenth century. An edition of the first two sections in Telugu has appeared from Madras; two new editions of the whole work are about to appear in the Bibl. Ind. in Calcutta and in the Bombay Sanskrit Series,—the latter is the best. Burnell in 1868 published a translation of the chapter on the law of inheritance.