Sayana
?–1387 CE · associated with the Vijayanagara region (Karnataka); place of activity rather than a documented birthplace
Died 1387 CE (well documented); birth year unknown, but he flourished in the 14th century in the Vijayanagara empire.
Sāyaṇa (or Sāyaṇācārya) was a 14th-century Sanskrit scholar and high official of the Vijayanagara empire in south India, celebrated as the greatest traditional commentator on the Vedas. Working under the patronage of the Vijayanagara kings, and in collaboration with a circle of scholars associated with his brother Mādhava (Vidyāraṇya), he produced commentaries (bhāṣyas) on the Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas of all four Vedas, most famously on the Ṛgveda. His commentaries became the standard traditional interpretation and were heavily relied upon by 19th-century European editors and translators such as Max Müller. He died in 1387; his birth year is not recorded, though he flourished in the mid-to-late 14th century. He is remembered above all as the scholar who made the Vedas systematically intelligible to later generations.
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associated with the Vijayanagara region (Karnataka); place of activity rather than a documented birthplace
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Sāyaṇa (14th c.), celebrated for his comprehensive commentaries on the Vedas, was active in the Vijayanagara region of Karnataka (around Hampi) under the patronage of the Vijayanagara empire, where he served as a minister. This place marks his sphere of activity.
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