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INTRODUCTION
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COMMENTARIES ON THE SŪRYAŚATAKA
Aufrecht, in the Catalogus Catalogorum (s. v. Süryaśataka),
lists 7 references to manuscripts of anonymous commentaries and
18 references to commentaries by known authors. The following
commentators are mentioned by name: Jayamangala, Tribhuva-
napāla, Madhusudana, Yajñeśvara, Vallabhadeva, Srirangadeva,
Lingaya, Gangadhara Pathaka, Bālambhaṭṭa, Harivamsa, Gopi-
natha, Anvayamukha, Jagannātha, and Rāmabhaṭṭa. To Auf-
recht's list I would add the anonymous Bengali commentary
mentioned by Weber (Indische Studien, vol. 1, p. 472); the
Sinhalese verbal interpretation by Parākramabāhu Vilgam-mūla
(cf. Bendall, Cat. of Skt. MSS in the British Museum, p. 100,
no. 257), probably identical with the Sinhalese commentary
attached to manuscript no. 1257 of the Bodleian Library (cf.
Winternitz and Keith, Cat. of Skt. MSS in the Bodleian Library,
vol. 2, p. 178); and the țīkā of Gopinatha, listed by Taylor¹ in
his Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental MSS in the Government
Library, vol. 2, p. 212.
EDITIONS OF THE SŪRYAŚATAKA
I have succeeded in finding record of thirteen editions of the
Süryaśataka, and there have doubtless been more. These thir-
teen are as follows.
An edition of 1848, or probably much earlier. In a List of
Books in the Pali and Singhalese Languages, read Feb. 26, 1848,
by the Rev. R. S. Hardy, and published in JCRAS, vol. 1, no. 3
(1848), p. 200, the name 'Suya-satake, Sans [krit]' appears as
the title of vol. 441 of the list. Nothing further is said of the
work, so it is barely possible that not Mayūra's Süryaśataka, but
another composition bearing the same name, is meant.
1 See above (p. 63, note 5), where the question of the reliability of
Taylor's work has been discussed. This commentary of Gopinātha is
perhaps identical with the commentary of Gopinātha listed in the Alpha-
betical Index of MSS in the Government Oriental MSS Library, Madras,
p. 65, Madras, 1893 (see Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 2, p. 175).
103
COMMENTARIES ON THE SŪRYAŚATAKA
Aufrecht, in the Catalogus Catalogorum (s. v. Süryaśataka),
lists 7 references to manuscripts of anonymous commentaries and
18 references to commentaries by known authors. The following
commentators are mentioned by name: Jayamangala, Tribhuva-
napāla, Madhusudana, Yajñeśvara, Vallabhadeva, Srirangadeva,
Lingaya, Gangadhara Pathaka, Bālambhaṭṭa, Harivamsa, Gopi-
natha, Anvayamukha, Jagannātha, and Rāmabhaṭṭa. To Auf-
recht's list I would add the anonymous Bengali commentary
mentioned by Weber (Indische Studien, vol. 1, p. 472); the
Sinhalese verbal interpretation by Parākramabāhu Vilgam-mūla
(cf. Bendall, Cat. of Skt. MSS in the British Museum, p. 100,
no. 257), probably identical with the Sinhalese commentary
attached to manuscript no. 1257 of the Bodleian Library (cf.
Winternitz and Keith, Cat. of Skt. MSS in the Bodleian Library,
vol. 2, p. 178); and the țīkā of Gopinatha, listed by Taylor¹ in
his Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental MSS in the Government
Library, vol. 2, p. 212.
EDITIONS OF THE SŪRYAŚATAKA
I have succeeded in finding record of thirteen editions of the
Süryaśataka, and there have doubtless been more. These thir-
teen are as follows.
An edition of 1848, or probably much earlier. In a List of
Books in the Pali and Singhalese Languages, read Feb. 26, 1848,
by the Rev. R. S. Hardy, and published in JCRAS, vol. 1, no. 3
(1848), p. 200, the name 'Suya-satake, Sans [krit]' appears as
the title of vol. 441 of the list. Nothing further is said of the
work, so it is barely possible that not Mayūra's Süryaśataka, but
another composition bearing the same name, is meant.
1 See above (p. 63, note 5), where the question of the reliability of
Taylor's work has been discussed. This commentary of Gopinātha is
perhaps identical with the commentary of Gopinātha listed in the Alpha-
betical Index of MSS in the Government Oriental MSS Library, Madras,
p. 65, Madras, 1893 (see Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 2, p. 175).