Mahīdhara

Mahīdhara

Mahīdhara (the name means "earth-bearing", a mythological mountain in the Mahabharata, and also an epithet of Vishnu) was a 16th century commentator of the Vedas, author of the Mantramahodadhi (mantra-uda-dhí "great ocean of mantras", ca. 1588) and Vedadipa (veda-dīpa "light of the Vedas", on the Vajasaneyi-samhita of the White Yajurveda)

Editions

  • Mantramahodadhi With the Commentary Nauka, Sri Satguru Publications, Indian Books Centre, Delhi (1984, 1985), ISBN 9788170300502.
  • Mahidhara's Mantra mahodadhih: Text in Sanskrit and roman along with English translation and comprehensive commentary, Prachya Prakashan (1992)
  • Isavasyopanisad bhasya sangraha: Sankara bhasyam, Uvata bhasyam, Sayana bhasyam, Mahidhara bhasyam, Prakasa bhasyam, Yogapaksiyam Pra. Bha., Svami Dayananda, Jagadisa Samskrta Pustakalaya; Nutana samskarana edition (2001), ISBN 978-8187177210
  • A. Weber, The Vajasaneyi-samhita in the Madhyandina- and the Kanva-shakha Berlin (1592), reprint Chowkhamba (1972).

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