[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: Prashthana traya

Sunil Bhattacharjya sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 19 14:02:16 CST 2016


Dear Subbuji,

It appears to me that the Prasthantraya division was first suggested by Sri Madhusudana Sarasvati. 

As regards the Bhagavadgita bhshya it appears to me that it was probably written by the great scholar Sri Vidyashankara, who was born 81 (or is it 76) yeas after the passing away of Sri Ramanujacharya. Sri Vidyashankara wrote the Bhagavad Gita bhashya to establish it as an advaitic text by refuting the Vishishtadvaita interpretation in  the Bhagavadgitabhashya of Sri Ramanujacharya.

Regards,
skb


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On Sun, 12/18/16, V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: [advaitin] Re: [Advaita-l] Prashthana traya
 To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
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 Date: Sunday, December 18, 2016, 10:59 PM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       
 
 On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at
 6:13 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 vedanta.org> wrote:
 Dear friends,
 
 
 
 I have a couple of querries :
 
 
 
 1. Where was the first mention of the Sanskrit
 phrase"Prashthanatraya" ?
 
 Difficult to trace; it is not in
 Shankara's bhāṣya though. 
 
 
 2, Did anywhere Adi Shankaracharya say that he was the first
 to write a bhashya on the Bhagavad Gita?
 
 No. On the other hand, he has said
 in the introduction to the Bh.gita bhashya that there have
 been many commentaries to it before him. 
 तदिदं
 गीताशास्त्रं
 समस्तवेदार्थसारसङ्ग्रहभूतं
 दुर्विज्ञेयार्थम्,
 तदर्थाविष्करणायानेकैर्विवृ
 तपदपदार्थवाक्यार्थन्यायमपि
 अत्यन्तविरुद्धानेकार्थवत्वेन
 लौकिकैर्गृह्यमाणमुपलभ्य
 अहं
 विवेकतोऽर्थनिर्धारणार्थं
 सङ्क्षेपतो विवरणं
 करिष्यामि ॥ 
 
 
 3,  Did anywhere Sri Ramanuja and Sri Madhvacharya say that
 they were writing the Bhagavad Gita bhashya to refute the
 views in Adi Shaankaracharya's bashya on the Bhagavad
 Gita.
 
 No idea. 
 regardssubbu 
  
 What I find is that from the linguistic considerations some
 scholars found that the composition in the so-called
 Bhagavad Gitabhashya of Adi Shankaracharya is different from
 the literary style of Adi Shankarachrya's other
 compositons. I personally feel that had it been Adi
 Shankaracharya's composition, he would have written a
 bhshya on the original Bhagavad Gita of 745 verses, which
 has the ajativada verse (verse of non-creation), which
 Gaudapadacharya included in his Mandukya karika.
 
 
 
 Regards,
 
 SunilKB
 
 
 
 
 
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