[Advaita-l] Narayana - Word

[kalyan chakravarthy]

> > That is actually quite significant in my opinion. The word nArAyaNa 
>appears
> > for the first time in the yajur veda.(please correct me if I am wrong). 
>At
> > that time, nArAyanA was not clearly identified with vishNu. In the 
>nArAyaNa
>
>[*chomp*]
>
>The whole posting is rather silly and uninformed.  Sankara himself quite
>clearly identifies the referent of the BG as Narayana.  Furthermore, the
>equation of Narayana with Vishnu is even stated in the amara-koshha,
>created by a Jaina not much later than Panini.

*Dr.Gupta says that the BG is probably "older" than pANini* (how much older 
is not mentioned nor even speculated)

[*chomp*]

Unfortunately Shrisha Rao still continues his habit of making too many 
assumptions.

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