Mahīdhara

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'''Mahīdhara''' ("earth-bearing") was a 16th-century commentator of the [[Vedas]]. His treatises include the ''Mantramahodadhi'' (''[[mantra]]-uda-dhí'', "great ocean of mantras") of ca. 1588, and the ''Vedadipa'' (''veda-dīpa'', "light of the Vedas"). The latter concerns the Vajasaneyi-samhita of the [[White Yajurveda]].

Mahīdhara's namesake is a legendary mountain described in the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', which is also an [[epithet]] of [[Vishnu]].

The commentaries of "[[Sayana]]", Skanda, Venkata , '''Mahīdhara''', etc are of recent times. All of them belong to a time ''later'' than [[Yāska|Yaska]]'s. According to [[Dayananda Saraswati|Swami Dayananda]] these commentaries were '''fine'''. [[Dayananda Saraswati|Swami Dayanada]] based his commentary on the [[Brahmana]]s and the [[Nirukta]] . His interpretations are based mainly on the [[Etymology|etymological]] method.<ref name=":0" />

== Mahīdhara commentator on the [[Yajurveda]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000191283|title=Svāmī Dayānanda Sarasvatī's R̥gvedādi-bhāṣya-bhūmikā|last=An introduction to the commentary on the four Vedas / translated into English, with original text, a critical introduction & exhaustive notes by Parmanand.|first=Dayananda Sarasvati, Swami, 1824-1883.|date=1981|website=hathitrust.org|publisher=Meharchand lachhmandas Publications}}</ref>==
'''Mahīdhara''' was equally an important commentator on the '''[[Yajurveda]]'''; but from his [[Bhashya|''Bhasya'']] it is quite evident that he was a '''[[Vamachara|Vāma mārgi]]''' and believed in the [[Tantra|Tantrika]] school of ritualists.

==Editions==
*Mantramahodadhi with the Commentary Nauka, Sri Satguru Publications, [[Indian Books Centre]], Delhi (1984, 1985), {{ISBN|978-81-7030-050-2}}.
*Mahidhara's Mantra mahodadhih: Text in Sanskrit and roman along with English translation and comprehensive commentary, Prachya Prakashan (1992)
*Isavasyopanisad bhasya sangraha: Sankara bhasyam, Uvata bhasyam, Sayana bhasyam, Mahidhara bhasyam, Prakasa bhasyam, Yogapaksiyam Pra. Bha., Svami Dayananda, Jagadisa Samskrta Pustakalaya; Nutana samskarana edition (2001), {{ISBN|978-81-87177-21-0}}
*A. Weber, ''The Vajasaneyi-samhita in the Madhyandina- and the Kanva-shakha'' Berlin (1852), reprint Chowkhamba (1972).
*[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11688058?selectedversion=NBD2637448 The Rigveda with Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati's commentary- Translated into english by Acharya Dharma Deva Vidya Martanda (1974), English, Sanskrit, Book edition]

==See also==
*[[Sayana]]
*[[Uvata]]
*[[Yāska|Yaska]]
*[[Dayananda Saraswati|Swami Dayananda]]

== References ==
# [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10954281-an-introduction-to-the-commentary-on-the-vedas-rigvedadi-bhashya-bhumika Saraswati, Dayanand. "An Introduction to the Commentary on the Vedas Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika by Dayanand Saraswati, Ghasi Ram — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-04-19.]
# https://archive.org/details/RigvedaWww.aryamantavya.in/page/n1
#<ref name=":0" /> Dayananda Sarasvati, S., Parmanand, 1. (1981) : ''Pg xxii Mahīdhara''
#[[Rigvedadi Bhashya Bhumika]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=ऋग्वेदादिभाष्यभूमिका|last=महर्षि दयानंद सरस्वती|first=Swami Dayanand Saraswati|publisher=Vijaykumar Govindram Hasanand|year=|isbn=9788170771630|location=|pages=}}</ref>

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