[Advaita-l] Evidence for Hari-Hara worship in early 13CE

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Sriram Sankaranarayanan <
ssriram1992 at icloud.com> wrote:

> Namaskarams to all,
>
> Adding to this from the Skanda Upanishad
> <http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/skandaupan.html?lang=sa>
>
> //
>
> शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय शिवरूपाय विष्णवे ।
> शिवस्य हृदयं विष्णुः विष्णोश्च हृदयं शिवः ॥ ८॥
>
> यथा शिवमयो विष्णुरेवं विष्णुमयः शिवः ।
> यथान्तरं न पश्यामि तथा मे स्वस्तिरायुषि ॥ ९॥
>
> यथान्तरं न भेदाः स्युः शिवकेशवयोस्तथा ।
> देहो देवालयः प्रोक्तः स जीवः केवलः शिवः ॥ १०॥
>
> //
>
> Kind regards,
> Sriram
>

Dear Sriram,

The first two verses are chanted daily during sandhyavandanam by Telugu and
Kannada speaking  smārta-s.  A Telugu sandhyavandanam book by Krishna
Pandita printed in the early 1900 s has these verses. Also these verses are
present in the Mahabharata, in a slightly varied form, as stated by Arjuna.

regards
subrahmanian.v

>
> Hamsah Soham
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>> Namaste
>>
>> I think the Hari Hara Bheda was started by Kings in the South India.
>> Some Kings liked Hara and some kings liked Hari. The Kings liking Hara
>> tried to destroy Hari followers and Kings liking Hari tried to destroy
>> Hara followers. Because of this also Ramanuja was attacked in TN. Then
>> he fled to Karnataka
>>
>> The important point is religion should never be mixed with politics
>> and political power. When Religion becomes official government Policy
>> all the trouble starts. Same thing is happening in Islamic countries
>> now. They are mixing religion and politics. Same thing happened in
>> Christian history when Pope got political powers.
>>
>> On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 7:46 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
>> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> > Here is a post that appeared in the Advaitin forum (see below) and my
>> > response to it :
>> >
>> > Thank you Sri Sada ji for the response and the references.  It only
>> > confirms that early Advaitins had no vision of difference between Hari
>> and
>> > Hara.
>> >
>> > regards
>> > subbu
>> >
>> >
>> > 69044Re: [advaitin] Evidence for Hari-Hara worship in early 13CE
>> > *Expand Messages*
>> >
>> >    - kuntimaddi sadananda
>> >    May 13 5:09 AM
>> >    Subbuji - PraNAms
>> >
>> >    Tikkana somayaji , a telugu poet who translated major part of
>> >    Mahabharata into telugu does invocation to  Hari Hari . He is
>> supposed to
>> >    be early 13th Century, if my memory is correct. The first famous
>> poet in
>> >    Telugu is Nannaya who is around 11th century. He translated only
>> first two
>> >     and half pervas of Mahabhararad. Tikkana translated from 3rd on the
>> rest
>> >    while Yellapraggada translated the remaining half of the second
>> perva.
>> >
>> >    Tikkana was a Hari Hara bhakta and- He says when he was a child he
>> >    composed a sloka that says:
>> >
>> >    kim astimaalaam kim koustubam vaa
>> >    pariShkriyaayaam bahumanya setvam|
>> >    kim kaalakuuTaH kim yasodaastanyam
>> >    tava sadhuvada priya me||
>> >
>> >    Oh! Hari Hara! Do you really want to decorate yourself with garland
>> of
>> >    bones or with koustubham maNi - Please clear my doubt, Also do you
>> prefer
>> >    to drink kaalakuta poison or mother yasoda's milk - Please let me
>> know.
>> >
>> >    His Mahabharata starts with sloka - shreeyana gourinaa baragu ...
>> where
>> >    he equates Shree- lakshmi and Gouri - Parvati as one and the same.
>> >
>> >    Hari Om!
>> >    Sadananda
>> >    -
>> >    -
>> >    -
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >    -
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 4:27 PM, V Subrahmanian <
>> v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>  Namaste
>> >>
>> >> Evidence for Hari-Hara worship in early 13CE
>> >>
>> >> In the following URL an article on the above topic is available for
>> >> download:
>> >>
>> >
>> > http://www.mediafire.com/file/m9q7v82eeag1j26/Evidence_for_H
>> > ari-Hara_worship_13CE_F.pdf
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> regards
>> >> subrahmanian.v
>> >>
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