Talk:Sāyaṇa

Sayana's works
Hi, He has written many books. I added there are from copied from Vijayanagara Empire. I have sources for this information in two offline books. You can search on google as well for his works and I am sure you will find atleast few of them. See an online copy of one of the books at http://igmlnet.uohyd.ernet.in:8000/gw_44_5/hi-res/hcu_images/G2.pdf and search for sayana in it. mlpkr 17:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Sayana and Madhavacharya - One and the same?
I recently came across the C%C4%81rv%C4%81ka philosophy, and one of the sources of information is a book, the Sarvadarsanasangraha (Internet Archive book-scanning project page) attributed to Madhavacharya who is referred to in this article as Madhava.

My question is - are Sayana and Madhava the same person? The reason I ask is a footnote to the prologue of the book which goes -

Dr. A. C. Burnell, in his preface to his edition of the Vamsa-Brahmana, has solved the riddle of the relation of Madhava and Sayana. Sayana is a pure Dravidian name given to a child who is born after all the elder children have died. Madhava elsewhere calls Sayana his "younger brother", as an allegorical description of his body, himself being the eternal soul. His use of the term Sayana-Madhava here (not the dual) seems to prove that the two names represent the same person. The body seems meant by the Sayana of the third shloka. Mayana was the father of Madhava, and the true reading may be sriman-mayana.

If so, then both articles might have to be merged. Any ideas? Last Contrarian (talk) 20:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess we can state that tradition makes Sayana and Madhava brothers, and that according to one theory (A. C. Burnell), the two are in fact identical. dab (𒁳) 20:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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sayana-101: Sayana Influence quotes
, I did some edits here with the purpose that, Sayana page has not been updated on Wikipedia although influence is quite high on translations of his work to English. diff. However, I find that these have been moved to notes, any reason for the same? Jaykul72 (talk) 23:02, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * See WP:QUOTEFARM and WP:NPOV. Try to paraphrase them, and try to find some other assessments as well. Klostermaier states that translations of the Rigveda were influenced negatively by relying on Sayana... The reception and perception of Sayana in the west is complicated; see Ram Gopal, The History and Principles of Vedic Interpretation. Giving an overview of this reception will improve the quality of the article. Regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk!  04:28, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure we can do that. There are views and counter-views on just about anything on earth. There is west, east, north and south with 7 billion people. But I just don't get it as to why move them to notes? isn't Wikipedia about collaborative editing and improvisation, I add a point, you add a point and we all present a beautiful document which we live back as a summary for future generation to read upon? Jaykul72 (talk) 08:48, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Please, read those policies. Too many quotes is not good; only prsenting the praise isn't good either. Ans putting them all in the lead shows a lack of understanding of basic policies. Try to paraphrase them, and search for the context of those quotes. 19th century scholarship was quite dismissive of Sayana; Richard Pischel (1849-1908) and Karl Friedrich Geldner (1852-1929) apparantly respond to this attitude. But you can't just simply refer to 19th scholarship without providing the context; that's kind of misleading. Provide the context. Joshua Jonathan  - Let's talk!  16:09, 15 June 2020 (UTC)