[Advaita-l] Fwd: The historicity of the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya

[V Subrahmanian]

The (Old Shankara vijaya's) author's name  is not mentioned. I made a
mistake in giving the name of that 'original' work: It is stated as
'प्राचीनशंकरविजयः" whereas I wrongly stated it as 'brihat shankara vjaya'.
The very first verse of the Madhaviya says:     https://sa.wikisource.org/s/
yjy

प्रणम्य परमात्मानं श्रीविद्यातीर्थरूपिणम् ।। *प्राचीनशंकरजये सारः संगृह्यते
स्फुटम्* ॥ १ ॥

And at the end of each sarga, we see a colophon thus: 'इति श्रीमाधवीये
.....संक्षेपशङ्करजये सर्गोऽयं....'

>From the above we can see that the extant work is a samkshepa of an ancient
work. You can see in the link above that the Dindima commentary too
mentions the praacheena....

regards
subbu



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> On Tue 20 Mar, 2018, 8:12 AM V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:17 AM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>>>  Namaste Sri Kalyan
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>>> We have a similar situation with Adi Shankara whose oldest  biography
>>> was written only 400-500 years after his life but is still regarded
>>> as authentic.
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>> Dear Raghav ji,
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>> The above is from your post in the other thread on Buddhism and Caste.
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>> There is one point that is worth consideration by all those who are
>> interested in the Shankara-date issue.  The Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya, at
>> the outset itself says that this work is based on a 'Brihat Shankara
>> Vijaya', and that the present work is only a condensation/abridged of the
>> earlier one, although that earlier work is not available to us.
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>> My interest in this is getting condensed because of an observation of
>> mine in the 'Mani Manjari', a work admitted by Madhvas as of one Narayana
>> Pandita who is a contemporary of Madhva. This work has in it a dialogue
>> that is famous in the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya, as between Mandana Misra
>> and Shankara.  The lines 'कुतो मुण्डी?',  'आगलान्मुण्डी', etc. is found in
>> the Mani Manjari, almost as it is in the Shankara Vijaya.  It is well known
>> that the author of the Vijaya is later to the time of Madhva by at least
>> one century.  Hence my guess that the Brihat Shankara Vijaya must have
>> existed much before even Madhva and that Narayana Pandita must have taken
>> parts from it to concoct his story of Shankara.  A further research in this
>> is worth, I think.
>>
>> warm regards
>> subbu
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