The Memorial Edition of The Works of Śr̄ı Śaṅkarācārya, published by Sri Vani Vilas Press, Srirangam, but some variant readings from other editions have been adopted as well.1 According to the tradition, Śaṅkara was once walking in the streets of Vārān. [...] The hymn is popularly referred to as Bhaja Govindam after the opening words of the refrain. [...] The various printed editions differ in their arrangement of the verses, but in some editions the first twelve verses of this edition constitute the Dvādaśamañjarikāstotra, and the twelfth verse is followed by a verse that explains the authorship and occasion for the composition of the hymn: dvādaśamañjarikābhir aśe.sah. [...] Regarding the fourteen verses composed by Śaṅkara’s disciples, then verse 13 of the present edition is atrributed to Padmapāda, verse 14 to Tot.aka, verse 15 to Hastāmalaka, verse 16 to Subodha, verse 17 to Vārttikakāra (i.e. [...] Mahadevan cites from the commentary of Svayamprakāśa Svāmin, a dis- ciple of Gopāla Yoḡındra, in his comments to the hymn (apparently the commentary has not published as he used a manuscript in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library in Madras).
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