History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s72.18

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Hemādri is credited with a commentary on Śaunaka's Praṇavakalpa.⁸⁵² He appears to have written a śrāddha-kalpa according to the rules of Kātyāyana which is distinct from his Śrāddhakhaṇḍa (vide Calcutta Sanskrit College mss. cat,. vol. II, p. 163, No. 217 and Stein's cat. p. 105). Hemādri also wrote a commentary⁸⁵³ called Kaivalyadīpikā on the Muktāphala of Vopadeva, the famous author of the Mugdhabodha grammar. The Muktāphala embodies the philosophy of the Bhāgavata purāṇa in 19 adhyāyas and 784 verses (and a few lines in prose in 5th and 6th chapters). Vopadeva was a friend and protegee of Hemādri, who wrote several works at the encouragement of the latter. He says that he wrote the Harilīlā (published in the Calcutta Oriental Series No. 3), an index of the Bhāgavata for pleasing the minister Hemādri.⁸⁵⁴ There is a commentary on this work called Viveka with which both Hemādri and Madhusūdana-Sarasvatī had something to do.⁸⁵⁵ Hemādri also wrote a commentary called Āyurvedarasāyana on the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya of Vāgbhaṭa.