Quotes:Sayana

Zirkoff, Boris

Sâyana (or Sâyanacharya). The greatest Vedic commentator of the Middle Ages (d. 1387). Learned Brâhmana, son of Mâyana, pupil of Vishnu Sarva.inâ and of Samkarananda, minister to King Bukka I (1350-79) and Harihara II (1379-1406) of the Vijaya-nagara dynasty in Southern India. Of more than one hundred works attributed to him, some may have been by his pupils, some possibly by his brother, Mâdhvâchârya or Vidyâranya, with whom he has been sometimes confused. We are indebted to him for a number of valuable commentaries on the Rigveda (See App. p. 367), the Aitareya-Brâhmana and Aranyaka (See App. p. 362), and the Taittiriya Samhitâ, Brâhmana and Aranyaka.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 381