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INTRODUCTION
 
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the battle, he jumped from his horse upon the elephant that

was carrying his enemy, captured him alive and took possession

of Ujjain. He distributed the conquered territory among his

friends and reinstated Sväāti on his father's kingdom.[^¹] He

released Bandhudatta his friend from prison and recovered

Rangapatākā his mistress who had dwelt abroad for fear of

the enmity of the rake, the brother-in-law of the king. [^2
 
]
 
Dandṇḍin tells us that Upavarşa was the teacher of

Kaātyāyana-Vararuci and that he was identical with Bodhāyana

and Kṛtakoți. It is possible that he was the same Ācārya as

Bhagavan Upavarşa, the great Vṛttikäāra of the Pūrva and

Uttara Mimämsäīmāṁsās. On the Upavarşa-Bodhāyana identity,

there is difference of opinion among scholars. Mm. Kuppu-

swami Sastri holds that Upavarşa and Bodhayana are
identical.

identical.[^
3] V. A. Ramaswami Sastri finds difficulty in

accepting the identity on the ground that, while Upavarşa
holds A
ṣa
holds Ā
tman as Vibhu, Bodhaāyana proclaims Jiīņutva

as stated by Śrī Rāmānuja in his Śrībhāṣya [^4] Dr. S.

Krishnaswami Ayyangar relying on the Manimekhalai[^5 and the
] and the
anonymous Prapañcasāra<error>[^³]</error> takes Bodhāyana as different from

Upavarşa but identical with Kṛtakoți. In the light of the

tradition recorded by Dandṇḍin the evidences sought to make

out Upavarşa to be different from Bodhāyana have to be

re-examined.
 

 
[^
1.
 
]. अग्रहीच्च बन्धुदत्तोपजप्तपौराम् उज्जयिनीम् , अन्धराज्यविजयतृप्तेन च

स्वातिना महति युद्धे तमात्मसैन्धवाद् उत्प्लुतप्रतिहस्ति मस्तको जीवग्राहमग्रहीत् ।

अन्वग्रहीच्च मित्रेभ्यो भुवनसंविभागे पित्र्येण राज्येन' । ( Av. p. 201).
 
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[^
2]. बन्धुदत्तसहचर्येयैवेयं राजस्यालकामुकवैरभयात् पुराधिवासितेति
ZGOJISHGÒT2

रङ्गपताकामदर्शयत्
। (Av. p. 200). This passage is reminiscent of

the theme of the Mṛcchakatika.
 

 
[^
3]. See his paper on 'Bodhāyana and Dramiḍācārya-Two

old Vedāntins presupposed by Rāmānuja', Proceedings of the Third

Oriental Conference, Madras, 1924, pp. 465-73.
 

 
[^
4]. Vide his introduction (pp. 14-6) to the Tattvabindu,

Annamalai University Sanskrit Series No. 3, p. 15.
 

 
[^
5]. Vide his 'Manimekhalai in its historical setting', pp. 91-2.

 
[^6].
T.S.S. 45.
 
6.