sAyaRa 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 ).