[Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara
Sunil Bhattacharjya
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 9 01:01:53 CST 2017
Dear Venkatraghavanji,
As you see Pathak has quoted the manuscript partially. There were other people also, who wrote on Abhinava Shankara. I wish more and more people be inqiuisitive, do some research themselves and bring out more of these things. The Shankara-mathas had great scholars in the past and due credit should be given to all of them. Hope you will also begin your quest and not just join the wagon of the arm-chair critics.
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-vedanta.org>, "Vidyasankar Sundaresan" <svidyasankar at gmail.com>, "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 10:51 PM
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
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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
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> 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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