[Advaita-l] shiva mahA purANa

[Satish Arigela]

>Shankara has condemned Kutarka Vadis in his commentataries. If you want to join 
>the list it your >pleasure.

Something does not become kutarka simply because the statement discomforts a 
person.

Some learned people both westerners and Indians are very doubtful about the 
existence of shaiva and vaiShNava mata-s as we know today during vyAsa's time.

If you see a sanskrit work styled sUta uvAcha or vyAsa uvAcha etc talking about 
some 18 th or 19th century happenings, I hope people are not so naive to accept 
them as authored by vyAsa. That is plain stupid if one asks me.

I suggest one grow's up and accept this instead holding onto stories meant for 
kids.


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From: Sriram Krishnamurthy <asksriramjobs at gmail.com>
To: Satish Arigela <satisharigela at yahoo.com>; A discussion group for Advaita 
Vedanta <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Sent: Mon, February 28, 2011 1:57:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] shiva mahA purANa


Shankara has condemned Kutarka Vadis in his commentataries. If you want to join 
the list it your pleasure.

Thanks and Regards,
Sriram


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Satish Arigela <satisharigela at yahoo.com> wrote:

>There is a Vayu Mahapurana as well.  But I think the main reason for the
>>confusion is that the Shiva >Mahapurana contains a Vayu or Vayaviya Samhita.
>
>All of shiva purANa is enjoyable but the vAyavIya saMhita is especially good. 
It
>may look blasphemous to some traditionlists but I along with many would
>seriously doubt if vyAsa ever authored this purANa. But one can always hide
>behind tradition no matter how illogical and irrational it be.
>
>Examining its contents will surely show that the shiva mahApurANa seems to be a
>great work probably authored** by accomplished
>shivAchArya-s(saiddhAntika-s), vaidika/smArta brAhmaNa-s who were great
>shivopAsaka-s and also by ancient pAshupata teachers.
>
>**The inspiration of-course for such great men certainly comes from the devata
>and hence can be seen as equivalent to, devata dictating it.
>
>
>
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