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title: Bṛhatī (Prabhākara Miśra)
description: 'Prabhākara Miśra''''s commentary on the Śabara-Bhāṣya, the founding text of the Prābhākara school, developing the injunction as niyoga and kārya, the anvitābhidhāna theory of sentence meaning, and the self as co-revealed knower.'
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- commentary
timestamp: '2026-07-08'
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# Bṛhatī (Prabhākara Miśra)

The Bṛhatī of Prabhākara Miśra (c. 7th century CE) is a commentary on Śabara''s Bhāṣya and the founding text of the Prābhākara sub-school, later expounded by Śālikanātha in the Ṛjuvimalā and Prakaraṇapañcikā. Prabhākara reads the Vedic injunction as a binding directive (niyoga) correlated with a to-be-done (kārya), grounds meaning in the connected sense of the injunctive sentence (anvitābhidhāna), and holds the self co-revealed in every act of knowing. This bundle cites the Bṛhatī tradition wherever the Prābhākara position on injunction, duty, or sentence-meaning carries the point.
