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THE SARVA-DARSANA-SANGRAHA.

THE PROLOGUE.

1. I worship Siva, the abode of eternal knowledge, the storehouse of supreme felicity; by whom the earth and the rest were produced, in _him_ only has this all a maker.

2. Daily I follow my Guru Sarvajña-Vishnu, who knows all the Ágamas, the son of Sárngapáni, who has gone to the further shore of the seas of all the systems, and has contented the hearts of all mankind by the proper meaning of the term Soul.

3. The synopsis of all the systems is made by the venerable Mádhava mighty in power, the Kaustubha-jewel of the milk-ocean of the fortunate Sáyana.

4. Having thoroughly searched the Sástras of former teachers, very hard to be crossed, the fortunate Sáyana-Mádhava[5] the lord has expounded them for the delight of the good. Let the virtuous listen with a mind from which all envy has been far banished; who finds not delight in a garland strung of various flowers?

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 5: Dr. A. C. Burnell, in his preface to his edition of the Vamsa-Bráhmana, has solved the riddle of the relation of Mádhava and Sáyana. Sáyana is a pure Dravidian name given to a child who is born after all the elder children have died. Mádhava elsewhere calls Sáyana his "younger brother," as an allegorical description of his body, himself being the eternal soul. His use of the term Sáyana-Mádhavah here (not the dual) seems to prove that the two names represent the same person. The body seems meant by the Sáyana of the third sloka. Máyana was the father of Mádhava, and the true reading may be _sríman-máyana_.]