Neelakantha Chaturdhara

Neelakantha’s commentary on the Mahabharata, the Bharatabhavadipa#, is one of the most referenced and used source for understanding the Mahabharata in modern times (apart from the Critical Edition itself)

#Bharatabhavadipa
- The Bharatabhavadipa is a commentary on the Mahabharata written by #Neelakantha Chaturdhara. Many modern translations of the Mahabharata use this commentary as a guide to understand the events and their interpretation.

Lecture 1: The Making of the Critical Edition
- This technique has also been used by Indian scholars before. For example #Neelakantha, author of Bharatabhavadipa# (a famous commentary on the Mahabharata), follows this technique and describes it in the beginning of his text.
- #Neelakantha also gives some examples about readings which have changed in different editions of the Harivansha and says that “only Vsaya would now know the real meaning”.
- The Virata Parvan Critical Edition was based on the vulgate text of the Bombay edition with #Neelakantha’s commentary (published in 1883). Sukthankar decided to use this same text as the starting point for the Critical Edition.

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