[Advaita-l] Regarding the Pancharatra, Shankara is one with Purvamimamsa

[V Subrahmanian]

Now it is clear with no ambiguity that Shankara specifies Badrayana as the
Brahma sutra author:

The very last of the BS is introduced by Shankara as - Bhagavan Badarayana
Acharya is giving (a) reply in this sutra:

सातिशयत्वादन्तवत्त्वम् ऐश्वर्यस्य स्यात् ; ततश्च एषामावृत्तिः प्रसज्येत —
इत्यतः उत्तरं भगवान्बादरायण आचार्यः पठति —………

अनावृत्तिः शब्दादनावृत्तिः शब्दात् ॥ २२ ॥

I had seen the line several times in the Advaita Sharada search but not in
conjunction with the sutra and just passed over. It was only due to an
external intervention that my attention was drawn to this line again, with
the sutra.  In the close to a dozen places where 'Badarayana' occurs in the
BS, Shankara invariably adds 'Bhagavan', 'Acharya' to the name. In all the
cases the sutra itself has that name and while commenting Shankara gives
that honorific.  But in this last sutra, the sutra does not have that name
and yet Shankara says '...Badarayana..reads (the sutra).

Thus, we have an indirect reference to Vyasa as the sutrakara and a direct
reference to Badarayana as the sutrakara. Padmapada salutes 'Badarayana' as
Vedanta acharya.  Bhaskara has also said Badarayana as sutrakara.
Anandagiri 13CE commenting on the above bhashya says:  Shankara is saluting
the sutrakara.  Ratnaprabha too says it is a puja of the sutrakara.

Om Tat Sat

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am not speculating anything. I am trying to see if there is any evidence
> supporting Vyasa-Badarayana identity. Your definition of Acharyas does not
> include Shankara, Bhaskara, Ramanuja.
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> On Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 8:49:48 PM GMT+5:30, V Subrahmanian <
> v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> //Unless there was a need felt for it.  For them there was no confusion
> about this. //
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> This is pure speculation.
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> Actually a Vyasa-Badrayana divide as author of the BS  is what amounts to
> speculation. We have possibly the earliest Acharyas/authors using these
> names to denote the author of the BS.
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