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Madhava (Sanskrit: माधव, IAST: Mādhava) is one of the primary epithets of Vishnu and Krishna. The word Mādhava in Sanskrit is a vṛddhi derivation of the word Madhu ( Sanskrit : मधु ), which means honey.
The 16th-century text Mahajyānayana prakāra (Method of Computing Great Sines) cites Madhava as the source for several series derivations for π. In Jyeṣṭhadeva 's Yuktibhāṣā (c. 1530), [ 9 ] written in Malayalam , these series are presented with proofs in terms of the Taylor series expansions for polynomials like 1/(1+ x 2 ), with x ...
Madhava Vidyaranya, Advaita saint and brother of Sayana; Venkata Madhava, 10th to 12th century commentator of the Rigveda; Madhavdeva, 16th-century proponent of Ekasarana dharma, neo-Vaishnavism of Assam; relating to springtime; the first month of spring, see Chaitra; Madhava or Madhava-kara, an Indian physician of the 7th or early 8th century
Vidyaranya is thought to have been named Madhava before taking ordination as a sannyasin. [7] However, Vidyaranya's authorship of the text has been contested by various scholars. [6] Some accounts identify Madhavacharya or Vidyaranya with Madhava, the brother of Sāyaṇa, a Mimamsa scholar from the Vijayanagara Empire. [4]
The Sumadhva Vijaya (also popularly referred as Sri Madhva Vijaya or simply as Madhva Vijaya) ("The story of the victory of Madhva"), is a hagiographic work about the Dvaita philosopher Madhvacharya.
Jai Radha Madhab, sometimes spelled as Jai Radha Madhava or Jai Radha Madhav, or Jay(a)-[1] (due to Indo-Aryan schwa dropping) is a Hindu song in Vaishnava tradition. The title is derived from the first line of the song, “Jai Radha Madhava” (Literally means “Victory to Radha and Madhav”), and is commonly sung in Hindi or Sanskrit as Bhajan or in Kirtan.
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Madhvacharya (IAST: Madhvācārya; pronounced [mɐdʱʋaːˈtɕaːrjɐ]; 1199–1278 CE [5] or 1238–1317 CE [6]), also known as Purna Prajna (IAST: Pūrṇa-Prajña) and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.