Mahīdhara

Mahīdhara ("earth-bearing") was a 16th-century commentator on the Vedas. His treatises include the Mantramahodadhi ("great ocean of mantras"), written around 1588, and the Vedadipa (veda-dīpa, "light of the Vedas"). The latter focuses on the Vajasaneyi-samhita of the White Yajurveda.

Mahīdhara's name is associated with a legendary mountain described in the Mahabharata, which is also an epithet of Vishnu.

Mahīdhara's commentaries belong to a period later than that of Yaska.

Editions Mantramahodadhi with the Commentary Nauka, Sri Satguru Publications, Indian Books Centre, Delhi (1984, 1985). Mahidhara's Mantra mahodadhih: Text in Sanskrit and roman along with English translation and comprehensive commentary, Prachya Prakashan (1992) Isavasyopanisad bhasya sangraha: Sankara bhasyam, Uvata bhasyam, Sayana bhasyam, Mahidhara bhasyam, Prakasa bhasyam, Yogapaksiyam Pra. Bha., Svami Dayananda, Jagadisa Samskrta Pustakalaya; Nutana samskarana edition (2001), A. Weber, The Vajasaneyi-samhita in the Madhyandina- and the Kanva-shakha Berlin (1852), reprint Chowkhamba (1972).