अणुभाष्य (महाप्रभु वल्लभाचार्य - शुद्धाद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र महाभाष्य प्रकाश टीका सहित)

( 5 ) The last Adhyāya and a half of the Bhashya is finished by his son Vitthale- s'wara. Sūkshma tīkā is almost lost. Even Pushti-Pravaha-Maryada-Bheda one of the minor Prakaraņas, is not available as a whole. The Bhagavata- Subodhini is available only on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 10th and a portion of 11th Skandhas. It is probable that Vallabha wrote on all the Skandhas. During his stay at Adel, after the completion of his Bhashya on पूर्वोत्तर- मीमांसाs, he seems to have met with great opposition from the Mayavadi Pandits of Benares. In order to silence them for ever, Vallabha wrote out a pamphlet in mixed verse and prose, and affixed the same to the doors of Kās'ī Vis'vanātha, with a challenge to Benares Pandits to refute the same, if they could. One Upendra was the leader of the opposition. It seems this discussion ended into threats of personal violence, as a consequence of which, Vallabha left Benares. This work seems to have created a great stir in the world of scholars then living. One Ayyanna Dikshita actually mentions it by name in his Vyasa- Tatparya-Nirnaya. Ayyanna's seems to be a veiled attempt to belittle the achievement of Vallabhacharya by propounding a principle though novel, far from convincing, for finding out the true view of Vyasa. It would be rather hazardous to say that the true view of Vyasa can be deter- mined from the statements of the opponents. Assuming however that it is so, the opponents mention both Parinama and Vivarta as the view of Vyasa. Hence from the statements of opponent Sankhyas and Naiyayikas, it is impossible to come to the conclusion that Vyasa teaches Vivarta alone in his Brahma Sūtras. The last portion of his life was passed at Adel. Here he finished his works which were begun by him during his travels, and served Lord Krishna with the love and devotion of Gopees, and founded his system on it. At the age of 52 he burnt his Parņas'āla, joined the Sannyasa Ās'rama, and came to Benares. For a month he observed fast, and for the last eight days he observed मौनव्रत, and on the 2nd day of the bright half of Āshadha Samvat 1587, he left this world mid-day. S'rī Vallabhacharya gave permanent form to his views, which were pro- pounded by him in the convention of king Krishnadeva of Vijayanagar, in his commentaries on the Pūrva and Uttara Mīmānsas. From internal evidence available from his writings which are extant, we have reason to believe that he completed his Bhashya both on Pūrva and Uttara Mīmānsas. His mention of ‘चकारात् मीमांसाद्वयभाष्यम्’ in his Prakās'a on the opening verses of his Tattvadīpa Nibandha would rather suggest an accomplished fact. In numerous places in the Subodhini (his commentary on Bhagavata) he refers to both the Bhashyas as siddha-vastu-facts accomplished. ‘भावनापक्षश्च पूर्वमीमांसाभाष्य एव निराकृतः’ भा. सु. २. १. ५. Similarly in ‘Veda Stuti Subodhini’ he refers to his Bhashya on the Brahma- Sūtras ‘भाष्ये विस्तरेणोक्तत्वात्’. We do not find this alleged विस्तर in the Aņu Bhashya as written by Vallabhacharya. In the Subodhini on 3. 4. 7. Vallabhacharya writes ‘एतान्येव गुणोपसंहारे षोडशाधिकरण्या प्रतिपादितानि’. गुणोपसंहार is the 3rd Pada of the 3rd 1525