Vidyaranya, Vidyāraṇya: 6 definitions

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Vedanta (school of philosophy)

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Source: archive.org: Vijayanagara Paintings (vedanta)

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

Source: Hindupedia: Later Advaitins

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.

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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).

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General definition (in Hinduism)

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Source: Oxford Reference: A Dictionary of 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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

[«previous next»] — Vidyaranya in Sanskrit glossary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Vidyāraṇya (विद्यारण्य) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—See Sāyaṇa.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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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