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हृते कलियुगे वर्षे वेदाग्निग्रह सागरैः ।
यज्ञवेदेश्वरेणैषा कृता मौक्तिकमालिका ॥
 
Bhavasvamin is styled Bhāṣyakāra by the commen-
tator. We know of two important
 
Bhavasvamin.
 
Bhavasvamins in literary history.
Bhaṭṭa Bhāskara¹ in his commentary on the Taittiriya-
samhita observes:
 
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वेदार्थः स षडङ्ग एवं खलु सोऽध्येयः श्रुतौ चोद्यते ।
वाक्यार्थैकपराण्यधीत्य च भवस्वाम्यादिभाष्याण्यतो
भाष्यं सर्वपथीन
मेतदधुना सर्वीयमारभ्यते ॥
 
The Bhavasvami Bhāṣya referred to here is on the
Yajurveda. But who this Bhavasvāmin is has not yet.
been settled. Bhatta Bhaskara is older than Sāyaṇa
who lived between 1302-1387, but by how many years,
we cannot say. If we work back the ancestry of
Srinivasa Dikṣita, the date of Bhavasvamin the author of
a Bhāṣya might be guessed as 1200-1300 at the earliest.
If the Bhavasvamin referred to by Bhaṭṭa Bhaskara
should be identical with the ancestor of Srinivasa Dikṣita,
then they should have followed each other in quick
succession - Bhavasvāmi — Bhaṭṭa Bhāskara - Sāyaṇa.
But later researches alone should decide this identity
or otherwise.
 
Another Bhavasvamin is known to be the author of the
"Bodhāyanakalpasūtravivaraṇa". There are two copies
 
¹P. 2. Mysore Edition of the Taittiriya Samhita.
 
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