[Advaita-l] Shankara authenticates Shiva as the son of Brahma

[D Gayatri]

In Mahabharata shanti parvan, it is mentioned by Krishna himself that
both Rudra and Brahma have birth from Narayana (from Mbh 12.328, see
verses 11 and 12 below) -

श्रीभगवानुवाच||

ऋग्वेदे सयजुर्वेदे तथैवाथर्वसामसु | पुराणे सोपनिषदे तथैव ज्योतिषेऽर्जुन ||८||

 साङ्ख्ये च योगशास्त्रे च आयुर्वेदे तथैव च | बहूनि मम नामानि
कीर्तितानि महर्षिभिः ||९||

 गौणानि तत्र नामानि कर्मजानि च कानिचित् | निरुक्तं कर्मजानां च शृणुष्व
प्रयतोऽनघ ||१०||

कथ्यमानं मया तात त्वं हि मेऽर्धं स्मृतः पुरा ||१०||

नमोऽतियशसे तस्मै देहिनां परमात्मने | नारायणाय विश्वाय निर्गुणाय
गुणात्मने ||११||

यस्य प्रसादजो ब्रह्मा रुद्रश्च क्रोधसम्भवः | योऽसौ योनिर्हि सर्वस्य
स्थावरस्य चरस्य च ||१२||

(From Narayana' prasAda, brahma arises, from his anger, Rudra arises).

On 14 August 2016 at 12:49, D Gayatri <dgayatrinov10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> //Thirdly, far from worshipping Shiva, the sages Nara and Narayana
> actually have a fight with Shiva, another incident recounted in the
> Mahabharata Shanti parvan. //
>
> One small clarification. I am yet to check whether this incident is in
> the critical edition. If it is not there, you can leave out this point
> and consider the others.