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On Madhav Deshpande, (came via email):
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I am going through shaunakiiyaa caturaadhyaayikaa by Madhav M.
Deshpande, Harvard Oriental Series volume 52, Edited by Michael
Witzel

I am utterly shocked and disgusted to find a string "[Pseudo]-"
prefixed to saayaNa in some places e.g. p323 in the note to 2.2.17
reads

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One should also note that the commentary of [Pseudo]-Sayana adopts ..
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as for as my reading of [Pseudo]-Sayana's commentary goes,....
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couple of points for now:
1. As veda recitation has always been an oral tradiiton, the
presumption that saayaNa used written text is prima facia absurd.

2. In the interest of propriety, It should be stated that a great
vedaacaarya saayaNa did live during king bukka's regime and wrote
bhaashhya on almost all of sa.nhitaa, braahmaNa, aaraNyaka.

so the prefix [Pseudo] witha capital 'P' is unwarranted. I had
expected a much higher standard from Harvard.

About the book itself: consists of about 60% recycled Whitney
quotations with ample praises to Whitney (looks like the same idiot
Whitney who was never able to understand a word of tai. pr. and made
a
lousy mess of it making his book utterly unreadable) and a bit of
suuryakaanta bashing

aa no bhadraaH kratavo yantu vishvataH
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