[Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara

[Venkatraghavan S]

Dear Sunilji,
Excellent, thank you. So if you had the paper already and has read it, why,
pray, did you ask Sri Vidyasankar for it?

Also please tell me where in the paper  does Pathak claim that the
manuscript that he discovered says that Abhinava Shankara was born in 788
in Chidambaram? Here is what you said previously:

"I think Sri  Nava Shankara was indeed a great scholar and if I remember
correctly the manuscript, which Pathak found and on that basis he (Pathak)
wrote a paper, Nava (Abhinava) Shankara was born  in 788 CE in Chidambaram."

Regards,
Venkatraghavan

On 9 Jan 2017 2:19 a.m., "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Venkataraghavanji,

As you have doubt, here is the paper of Pathak, which I read.

Regards,
Sunil KB
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On Sun, 1/8/17, Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara
 To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedan
ta.org>, "Vidyasankar Sundaresan" <svidyasankar at gmail.com>, "V
Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
 Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 12:14 PM

 Dear
 Sunilji,
 Were you making a
 reference to Pathak's paper without actually having read
 it?
 Regards,Venkatraghavan

 On 8 Jan 2017 7:17 p.m.,
 "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 Dear
 Vidyasanarji,



 Can you please attach the paper of Pathak?



 Regards,

 Sunil kKB

 ------------------------------ --------------

 On Sun, 1/8/17,
 Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at gmail.com>
 wrote:



  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi
 Shankara

  To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
 >

  Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
 <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 vedanta.org>, advaitin at yahoogroups.com,
 "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>,
 "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>

  Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 1:11 AM







  On Jan 6, 2017 11:03 PM, "Sunil Bhattacharjya via

  Advaita-l" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-

  vedanta.org> wrote:



  >



  > Dear Subbuji,



  >



  > I think Sri  Nava Shankara was indeed a great
 scholar

  and if I remember correctly the manuscript, which
 Pathak

  found and on that basis he (Pathak) wrote a paper, Nava

  (Abhinava) Shankara was born  in 788 CE in
 Chidambaram.

  This Nava Shankara is reported to have also written
 many

  texts including bhashyas and had gone to Kashmoir as well
 as

  to Kailash.



  >

  Dear Sunilji,

  I have read Pathak's paper in the Indian

  Antiquary. It says nothing about Nava Shankara or about

  Chidambaram. The paper attributes the date 788 CE to
 Adi

  Shankara and nobody else. You cannot cite Pathak in
 support

  of this fanciful theory of an 8th century Nava
 Shankara.



  >



  There might have some confusion in the past as the name
 of

  both Adi Shankara and the Nava Shankara was Shankara.
 It

  appears that Anantaanandagiri  had written a biography
 of

  Nava Shanaka.  Antarkar had done some work on the

  shankaravijayas  as part of his PhD work but did not

  continue that work to sort out all confusions



  >

  Sorry, anantAnandagiri also says nothing about

  Nava Shankara. His text claims to be an account only of
 Adi

  Shankara. However, it is an extremely problematic text.

  At the risk of sounding like I'm doing

  self-promotion, please note that I have published an

  extensive paper in the year 2000, published in The

  International Journal of Hindu Studies, examining

  Antarkar's papers as well as many of the original

  Sankaravijaya texts. I have sent this by email to you
 as

  well. I am only mentioning this here so that others

  following this thread are aware of it. I

  too hope that further research is taken up on these
 texts,

  but I hope that whoever does it adopts sound research

  methodology and works towards clarifying matters rather
 than

  confusing them even further. Regards, Vidyasankar

  > May be there is scope for more research

  and hope some university or some organization will
 sponsor

  PhD level research in this area.



  >



  > Regards,



  > Sunil KB



  > ------------------------------ --------------



  > On Fri, 1/6/17, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
 <advaita-l at lists.advaita-

  vedanta.org> wrote:



  >



  >  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas
 of

  Adi Shankara



  >  To: "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>,

  "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
 <advaita-l at lists.advaita-

  vedanta.org>



  >  Date: Friday, January 6, 2017, 1:39 AM



  >



  >  On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at



  >  1:56 PM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <



  >  advaita-l at lists.advaita-

  vedanta.org>



  >  wrote:



  >



  >  > Namaste Sri



  >  Vidyasankar,



  >  > The number of the works



  >  that are called bhAshya in the mAdhavIya Sankara



  >  > vijaya (I sent the references earlier)



  >  when read in conjunction with the



  >  >



  >  DiNDima appear to be 16 in number. The next verse
 in

  the



  >  Sankara vijaya



  >  > says that Adi Sankara



  >  wrote innumerable granthAs such as upadeSa
 sAhasri,



  >  > so these are apparently classified in a



  >  different category compared to



  >  >



  >  bhAShyas.



  >  >



  >



  >  There is also a text called



  >  'hastāmalaka-bhāṣyam' which is
 admitted

  in



  >  the



  >  tradition to be a commentary penned by



  >  Shankara on the verses given out by



  >  the



  >  disciple Hastamalaka. This text is also published
 by

  the



  >  Vani Vilas



  >  Press, Srirangam.



  >



  >  regards



  >  vs



  >



  >



  >



  >  >



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