[Advaita-l] Vidyaranya and vedanta deshika.

[SIVAKUMAR RAMAKRISHNAN]

SAdara pranAmam,
May I know the availability of the Deepikas on yhe upanishads by sage
Vidyaranya is avilable with some publishers.Namaste.
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Jaldharji,
>
> Thank you for this clarification. I understand that before leaving for
> kanchi he Madhava (senior) had another Guru, who sent Madhava (senior) to
> Kanchi and as Kanchi was a seat of knowledge for both he Advaita and the
> Ramanuja schools at that time, both these stalwarts, Madhava (senior) and
> Vedantadeshika might have come into contact at kanci, despite belonging to
> different schools and they had friendsip with  and respect  for each other.
> It appears  it was Madhava (senior) and not the other Madhava,  who was the
> adviser (and also called the minister, as the ministers had the advosry
> roles) to Hukka and Bukka.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
>
> --- On Sun, 11/14/10, Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Vidyaranya and vedanta deshika.
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010, 12:43 AM
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, srikanta wrote:
>
> > Moreover,Vidyaranya in his "sarva Darshan
> > sangraha"specifically mentions Vedanta desika by his personal
> > name,Venkatanatha(that the tenets of ramanuja darshana must be known only
> > from venkatanatha's granthas.Vidyaranya has not mentioned so specifically
> > with reference to other darshanas in his review,notably in Poornaprajna
> > Darshana.
>
> There is some confusion about several members of one of the most
> illustrious Brahmana families in Indian history.
>
> Madhava was the author of works on Dharmashastra (Parashara Madhava, Kala
> Madhava) grammar (Madhaviya Dhatuvrtti), poetry (Shankaradigvijaya), the
> adhikaranas of the Mimamsa sutras) (Jaiminiya Nyayamala and self-commentory
> called Vistara) and adhikaranas of the Brahma sutras (Vaiyasika Nyayamala
> and Vistara.)
>
> Madhava took sannyasa under the name Vidyaranya and ascended to the
> Shringeri Pitha.  He wrote many celebrated Vedantic works such as Dipikas on
> the major upanishads, tika on Aparokshanubhuti of Shankaracharya,
> Jivanmuktiviveka, drgdrshyaviveka, vivaranaprameyasangrah etc.  In
> conjunction with his guru Shri Bharati Tirth (his predecessor as Shringeri
> jagadguru) he wrote Panchadashi, the most influential Advaita work of the
> medieval period.
>
> Madhava's brother was Sayana acharya the authoritative commentator on
> Shruti.
>
> Sayana had a son also named Madhava and it is this junior Madhava who is
> the author of the sarvadarshanasangraha.  The author mentions his father in
> shloka 3 (shrImatsAyaNadugdhAbdhikaustubhena) and shloka 4
> (shrImatsAyaNamAdhavaH) atleast.
>
> So maybe Madhava senior and Venkatanatha were classmates but it is not
> proven based on this evidence.
>
> -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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