Name of a learned Brahman who was a prominent Vedic commentator and author.
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सायण (sāyaṇa) m. (said to be a Drāviḍa word) N. of a learned Brāhman (also called Sāyaṇamādhava and Sāyaṇācārya; he was son of Māyaṇa, pupil of Viṣṇu Sarva-jña and of Śaṃkarānanda; and flourished under Bukka I of Vijaya-nagara or Vidyā-nagara [A.D. 1350-1379] and his successor Harihara, and died in 1387; of more than a hundred works attributed to him, among which are commentaries on nearly all parts of the Veda, some were carried out by his pupils, and some were written in conjunction with his brother Mādhavācārya or Vidyāraṇya-svāmin). [ID=242748]
सायण (sāyaṇa) m. (said to be a Drāviḍa word) N. of a learned Brāhman (also called Sāyaṇamādhava and Sāyaṇācārya; he was son of Māyaṇa, pupil of Viṣṇu Sarva-jña and of Śaṃkarānanda; and flourished under Bukka I of Vijaya-nagara or Vidyā-nagara [A.D. 1350-1379] and his successor Harihara, and died in 1387; of more than a hundred works attributed to him, among which are commentaries on nearly all parts of the Veda, some were carried out by his pupils, and some were written in conjunction with his brother Mādhavācārya or Vidyāraṇya-svāmin). [ID=242748]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
