[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Works of Sri Vidyashankara
Sunil Bhattacharjya
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 28 17:36:15 CST 2016
Namaste Venkatraghavanji,
Not only you forgot to include the Shvetasvatara Upanishad as well as the Yogasutrabhashyavivaraan, you forgot to include Adi Shankara's very first bhashya, which was on the Vishnusahasranama and you also forgot his very last bhashya, which was on the Lalita Trishati. May I request the other scholars including Vidyasankar Sundaresanji, as to which, according to them, are the bhashyas, which constitute the list of the 16 Bhashyas of Adi Shankara.
Regards,
Sunil KB
On Wed, 12/28/16, Sunil Bhattacharjya sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] Works of Sri Vidyashankara
To: "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>
Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>, "yahoogroups" <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 12:18 PM
Namaste Venkatraghavanji.
How can you exclude Shankara-bhashyas on the Shvetashvatara
upnaishad and the Yogabhashyavivarana, just because the
Vaninilas press did not include these two in the list of 16
Shankara-bhashyas. I cannot imagine that Shankara did not
look at the Yogasutra and the seshvara-Sankhya.as needed for
higher studies on Indian philosophy.
Secondly, there is a doubt on the Vakyabhashya being a work
of Adi Shankara. There is a paper on that, but I do not
recall the detials. Moreover there was some discussion on it
in the "advaita group" as follows:
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2009-June/021911.html
As regards the book entitled "Shankara And Indian
Philosophy" of Natalia Isayeva, it is published by the
State University of New York Press. Albany. I read from a
library.
Regards,
sunil KB
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On Wed, 12/28/16, Venkatraghavan S
<agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] Works of Sri
Vidyashankara
To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya"
<sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, "V
Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 11:30 AM
Namaste
Sunilji,I'm replying to both emails
simultaneously:
1) The vANi vilAs Press, which brought out a
collection of AchArya's works under the aegis of HH
Sri
SacchidAnanda ShivAbhinava Nrsimha BhArati svAminah,
lists
the following as bhAshyas:1)
Brahmasutra-bhashya2) Isa3) Kena
pada4) Kena vAkya5) KaTha6)
PraSna
7) MuNDaka8) MANDUkya9) Aitareya
10) Taittiriya11) ChhAndogya
12) BrihadAraNyaka13) NrisimhapUrvatApani
14) Bhagavad-GitA-bhAshya
15) VishNusahasranAma16) SanatsujAtiya
From the above, the number according to vAni
vilAs ties in with the number referred to by
chitsukhAchArya. If there is a bhAshya that is left out
from
the list above which can take the place of the gIta
bhAshya,
please let us know. 2) Can't comment
on language differences between gIta bhAshya and the
rest,
would have to see specific examples to opine. If you can
provide instances from Prof. Karmakar's paper to the
list, we all can take a look. I'm suspicious of
philological research, but will keep an open
mind.
3) Not having read Nataliya Isayeva's
paper, I do not understand in what context the comment
about
adhyAropa apavAda was made. This is a common prakriya
across
all vedAnta shAstra in general, and not something that
is
unique to the gIta bhAshya. Also not sure about the
sundarapANDya reference. If there is a peculiarity about
the
way it is used in the BGB which is indicative of
sundarapANDya's
work, please share that with the group. Why would
that rule out Shankara's authorship in any
case?
4) Please can you point which verse number from
the GK is supposedly from the expanded gItA, and missing
from the gItA bhAshya?
5) On yAdavaprakAsha, you were questioning the
authorship of the ShAnkara Gita bhAshya based on a
subsequent bhAshya by yAdavaprakAsha referred to
by VedAnta deshika. If you do not believe in the first
instance that yAdavaprakAsha wrote a bhAshya, that
question
of Shankara's authorship on that basis also falls
away.
Regards,Venkatraghavan
On 28 Dec 2016 4:54
p.m., "Sunil Bhattacharjya"
<sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
> wrote:
Dear Venkatji,
According Chitsukhacharya, there were 16 bhashyas written
by
Adi Shankara. Has anybody tried to identify these 16
bhashyas of Adi Shankara? Can the Bhagavad Gitabhashya
fit
in the 16 Bhashyas?
Secondly there is the language style of the
Bhagavadgitabhashya, from which some scholars opined
that
Bhagavadgitabhashya does not appear to a composition of
Adi
Shankara.
Thirdly, why would Adi Shankara write bhashya on the
Bhagavadgita of 700 verses when the original Bhagavadgita
of
745 verses was available to him, as we can see the
inclusion
of thy ajati ada verse from the Bhagavadgita in the
Mandukyakarika by Gaudapadacharya.
Now coming to Yadavaprakasha, I still have one doubt,
about
his writing the Bhagavadgitabhshya, until some
confirmation
is seen. Just claiming that Yadavaprakasha wrote a
bhashya
on the Bhagavad gita is not worth accepting.
Ramanujacharya is believed to have seen the
Bodhayana-vritti
on the Bhagavadgita, which is claimed to be the
guide-book
for Ramanujacharya, but that claim also appears dicey,
as
nowhere any trace of that Bodhayanavriti has been found.
Swami Vivekananda also tried his best by searching for
it
all over India.
Regards,
skb
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Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] Works of Sri
Vidyashankara
To: "V Subrahmanian"
<v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
<advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedan
ta.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 6:25 AM
Thanks Subbuji.
So yAdavaprakAsha wrote a commentary to the
Brahma SUtra also, one that was
referred to
by Sri RAmanuja.
It's
clear from this that using yAdavaprakAsha to claim
that
the
Shankara
who wrote the Brahma SUtra bhAshya
is different from the Shankara who wrote
the
Bhagavad Gita bhAshya is not with merit - because
yAdavaprakAsha wrote
a commentary to the BS
too!
What applies for the
Gita, applies for the BS too, so shall we say Shankara
did not write the bhAshya to BS also?
Regards,
Venkatraghavan
On 28
Dec 2016 1:15 p.m., "V Subrahmanian"
<v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:43 PM,
Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Namaste Sri Sunil,
>>
>
>
>> Are there extant
works of yAdavaprakAsha to determine if he was an
>> advaitin, or if this was simply a
hagiographical attribution by
>>
vishiShTAdvaita scholars?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
Venkatraghavan
>>
>
> Dear Sri Venkat
ji,
>
> Recently there
was a discussion in the BVP forum where eminent
Ramanuja
> follower-scholars have said that the
Yadavaprakaśa bhāṣya for the
>
Brahmasutras, though not available in its original
form,
is
cited in
> Ramanuja's bhāsya. There
is a proposed project to reconstruct Y's
> philosophy from the Śrībhāṣya. The
discussion also gives room to think of
> 'Śankara's matam' as
distinct from 'Yādavaprakāśa's
philosophy'.
So, what
> hue of Advaita was that of the
latter is not clearly known to us. But the
> proposed reconstruction, if it happens,
would bring these aspects to the
>
limelight.
>
> warm
regards
> subbu
>
>>
>>
>>
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