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 The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most commented texts in Indian literature. There is a saying in Sanskrit - vidyā bhāgavatāvadhi - Bhāgavatam is the limit of one's learning. Hence through out the centuries it attracted a host of commentators from all schools of Krishna worshippers. Over eighty medieval era Bhāṣya (scholarly reviews and commentaries) in Sanskrit alone are known, and many more commentaries exist in various Indian languages.[164] The oldest exegetical commentary presently known is Tantra-Bhagavata from the Pancaratra school. Other commentaries include:

Dvaita commentaries

Acintya-bhedābheda Commentaries

  • Caitanya-mata-mañjuṣā - Śrīnātha Cakravartī
  • Bṛhad-vaiṣṇava-toṣiṇī - Sanātana Gosvāmī
  • Laghu-Vaiṣṇava-toṣiṇī - Jīva Gosvāmī
  • Krama-sandarbha - Jīva Gosvāmī
  • Bṛhat-krama-sandarbha - Jīva Gosvāmī
  • Ṣaṭ-sandarbhas by Jīva Gosvāmī (16th century CE)[165]
  • Vaiṣṇavānandinī - Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa
  • Sārārtha Darśinī - Vishvanatha Chakravarti (17th century CE) - elaborate commentary
  • Dīpika-dīpanī - Rādharamaṇa Gosvāmī
  • Gauḍīya-bhāṣya - Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati (20th century CE) - elaborate commentary
  • Bhaktivedānta Purports - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (20th century CE) - elaborate commentary

Viśiṣṭādvaita Commentaries

  • Śuka pakṣīyā - Sudarśana sūri
  • Bhāgavat chandrikā - Vīrarāghava (14th century CE) - elaborate commentary
  • Bhakta rañjanī - Bhagavat prasāda

Suddhādvaita Commentaries

  • Subodhini by Vallabha
  • Ṭippaṇī - Gosvāmī Viṭṭhalanātha
  • Subodhinī prakāsha - Gosvāmī Puruṣhottama
  • Bāla prabodhinī - Gosvāmī Giridharlāl
  • Viśuddha rasadīpikā - Kishorī prasāda

Dvaitādvaita Commentaries

  • Siddhānta pradīpikā - Śuka-sudhī
  • Bhāvārtha dīpikā prakāsha - Vamshīdhara
  • Anitārtha prakāśikā - Gaṅgāsahāya

Others

  • Bhāvārtha-dīpikā by Sridhara Swami (15th century CE)[166]
  • Amrtatarangini by Laksmidhara (15th century CE)[167]
  • Hanumad-Bhasya
  • Vasana-bhasya
  • Sambandhoki
  • Vidvat-kamadhenu
  • Paramahamsa-priya
  • Suka-hridaya
  • Mukta-phala and Hari-lilamrita by Vopadeva
  • Bhakti-ratnavali by Visnupuri
  • Ekanathi Bhagavata by Saint Eknath of Paithan (16th century CE, on the 11th Canto in the vernacular language of the Indian state of Maharashtra)
  • Narayaneeyam by Melpathur Bhattathiri of Kerala (1586, a condensed Srimad Bhagavatam)
  • Bhagavata-Purana by S.S. Shulba (2017, original Sanskrit);[168] other Sanskrit manuscripts are available
  • A study of the Bhagavata Purana or Esoteric Hinduism by P.N. Sinha (1901)[169]

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