[Advaita-l] 20, 21 and 22

[Bhaskar YR]

Indeed. Between Sankara and Ramanuja, we have a commentary by Bhaskara,
written from a Bhedabheda viewpoint. Between Ramanuja and Madhva, or maybe
contemporaneously with Ramanuja, there is a commentary by Srikantha, from 
a
Saiva viewpoint. So, even if we assume that there were 19 earlier 
commentaries
and that of Sankara bhagavatpAda is the 20th, Ramanuja's commentary is by
no means the 21st and Madhva's is by no means the 22nd.

praNAms
Hare Krishna

Perhaps, this numerologist taken the 'popularly' discussed bhAshya-s & 
arrived to this conclusion.  But one thing is clear from this, though one 
of the  sUtra lakshaNa-s should be 'asangdhigdhaM', these sUtra-s by no 
means meet this criteria due to its 'alpAkshara' :-)).  Hence, even today, 
after hundreds of bhAshya-s, vyAkhyAna-s, upa vyAkhyAna-s etc. sUtra-s are 
being interpreted in a different way by different schools of thought.  And 
unfortunately,  due to this 'sUtra saNdhigdhata'  there is drastic 
deviation in interpretation of the same sUtra bhAshya within the same 
school of thought !!

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar