Vidyaranya, Vidyāraṇya: 7 definitions
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Vedanta (school of philosophy)
Vidyāraṇya (विद्यारण्य) (lit. “forest of learning”) was a the great spiritual master, who was responsible for the building up of the Vijayanāgara empire in its earliest stages.—Vidyāraṇya was the spiritual preceptor of the earliest Vijayanāgara monarchs, and author of Jīvanmuktiviveka and the famous Vedāntapañcadaśī one of the most popular philosophical treatises of the Advaita system of philosophy. Vidyāraṇya’s blessings bore ample fruit when Sāyana the minister of Harihara II expounded the intricate meaning of the four Vedas, as Sāyana’s commentary of the Ṛgveda, Yajurveda, Sāmaveda and Atharvaveda are famous. There have been earlier commentaries on the Veda like Veṅkaṭa Mādhava’s Ṛgarthadīpika written during the time of the early Chola king Parāntaka, but Sāyana’s has ever remained the most popular.
Vidyāraṇya will long be remembered as the greatest pontiff at Śṛṅgeri of the seat of Śaṅkara who established his monasteries in different places in India with his order of several monks to propagate Advaita that he so lovingly taught in his short span of life of thirty-two years
Head of the Śṛṅgerī Pīṭha from 1380-1386 CE, he is one of the greatest names in the history of Vedānta. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Vijayanagara empire and a master of mantra-sāstra and yoga-sāstra. He authored several classics including the Pañcadaśī, the Jīvanmuktiviveka and the Dṛk-dṛśya-viveka. Many of these works were co-authored with his predecessor and younger brother Bhāratī Kṛṣṇa Tīrtha.
Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).
General definition (in Hinduism)
Vidyāraṇya or Madhāvācarya; (14th cent. ce). Hindu philosopher who expounded the Advaita Vedānta of Śaṅkara. His Pañcadaśi became a basic work of this school.
Vidyāraṇya (विद्यारण्य) is possibly identified as the author of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha (lit., “ompendium of all the darśanas”) by Mādhavācārya (fourteenth century CE) refers to the most famous text of the Saṃgraha literary genre dealing in 16 chapters with different darśanas or schools of Indian philosophy.—As far as the authorship of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha is concerned, a great debate is active about the identity of its author: should we consider Mādhava as the same as Vidyāraṇya (born to Māyaṇācārya and Śrīmatīdevī in Pampakṣetra), the brother of Sāyaṇa, or identical with Sāyaṇa, or what else? Should we consider Vidyāraṇya as a different person, and Mādhava and Sāyaṇa as his disciples? The author of the treatise should be identified with Mādhava-Sāyaṇa, or with Bharatītīrtha, or with Cinnambhaṭṭa? (Thakur 1961).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Vidyāraṇya (विद्यारण्य) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—See Sāyaṇa.
Vidyāraṇya (विद्यारण्य):—[from vidyā > vid] m. (also ya-tīrtha, ya-yati, ya-yogin, ya-svāmin, bhāratī-tīrthavidyāraṇya) Name of various scholars, [Colebrooke; Horace H. Wilson etc.]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Search found 48 books and stories containing Vidyaranya, Vidyāraṇya; (plurals include: Vidyaranyas, Vidyāraṇyas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Preceptors of Advaita (by T. M. P. Mahadevan)
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)
Page 142 < [Volume 1, Part 3 (1905)]
Page 271 < [Volume 25 (1924)]
Page 85 < [Volume 1, Part 2 (1904)]
Bhagavatpadabhyudaya by Lakshmana Suri (study) (by Lathika M. P.)
Śaṅkaradigvijaya (list of available works) < [Chapter 4 - Similarities and Dissimilarities]
Sanskrit Mahākāvyās on Śaṅkara’s Story of Life < [Chapter 1 - Life and Works of Lakṣmaṇa Sūrin]
The Gross Body < [Chapter 3 - References to Śaṅkara’s Philosophy]
Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Naishadha-charita of Shriharsha (by Krishna Kanta Handiqui)
Introduction to Narahari’s commentary < [Introduction]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 8 - Maṇḍana, Sureśvara and Viśvarūpa < [Chapter XI - The Śaṅkara School of Vedānta (continued)]
Part 25 - Vidyāraṇya (a.d. 1350) < [Chapter XI - The Śaṅkara School of Vedānta (continued)]
Part 7 - The Stage of the Saint (Jīvan-mukta) < [Chapter XII - The Philosophy of the Yogavāsiṣṭha]
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