History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.142

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(3) Whether Maṇḍana was a disciple of Kumārila; there is no substantial evidence for an affirmative reply, but Maṇḍana certainly explains in his Bhāvanāviveka a verse of Kumārila and quotes another verse from Tantravārtika Vide note 1946 above In the Vidhiviveka also (Benares ed. 1907), which Maṇḍana wrote after Bhāvanāviveka he quotes (on p. 15 'abhidhābhāvanā...linādayaḥ) from Tantravārtika (p 378) and on p 315 of the Vidhiviveka quotes (yathoktaṁ-śreyaḥsādhanatā....pratīyate') from Ślokavārtika (codanāsūtra, verse 14) Maṇḍana also quotes a passage from the Bṛhatī (p 38) of Prabhākara in Vidhiviveka¹⁹⁴⁹ (p. 109) So Maṇḍana, if not a disciple, was certainly later than or a younger contemporary of Kumārila