[Advaita-l] Doubt on how Bhagavad padha 'identified' himself

[V Subrahmanian]

First, apologies, for having mistook your reference to the Vaarttikam.  For
NS, Jnanottama's Chandrika is there which says for this verse, as you have
guessed:

द्राविडैः भगवत्पूज्यपादाचार्यैः | पञ्च द्रविडा इति केव(र)लानामापि
द्राविडत्वप्रसिद्धेः |

Sri SSS has written a book on Shankara's 'history'.  Not sure if he has
considered this verse.  I have not read the book though I have it.

regards


On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 1:13 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste Subbuji,
> I don't have access to Anandagiri's commentary on the naiShkarmya siddhi.
> To be honest, I was not even aware he had written one, until you had said
> so.
>
> I don't have the reference for this handy , but I remember reading in
> daivittin kural, the kAnchi paramAchArya mentioning that ancient India was
> broadly divided into gauDa deSa and drAviDa deSa, each of which was divided
> into five regions - the extremity of each of gauDa and drAviDa deSa was
> itself called gauDa and drAviDa.
>
> drAviDa in particular was composed of Andhra, karNATaka, gUrjara,
> saurAShTra and drAviDa. From here we can discern that drAviDa comprised of
> Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
>
> The rAjatarangiNi also classifies panchadrAviDa brAhmaNa-s as belonging to
> these regions. Periyava's source may have been this work.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatraghavan
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 07:18 V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:32 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Namaste,
>>> Not sure if this is relevant, but there is a reference to shankarAchArya
>>> as draviDa by sureshvarAchArya in the naiShkarmya siddhi 4.44.
>>> एवं गौडैर्द्राविडैर्नः पूज्यैरयमर्थः प्रभाषितः ।
>>> अज्ञानमात्रोपाधिः सन्नहमादिदृगीश्वर:॥
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Venkat ji, for this reference which I do not remember to have
>> seen. That gives us an extra pramana to hold Shankara is from the Draavida
>> desha.  Does Anandagiri say anything on this there? Was Kerala a part of
>> Draavida desha?  Sureshwaracharya has also referred to Bhagavatpada as
>> 'Atrigotra'.
>>
>> regards
>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Venkatraghavan
>>>
>>> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 05:36 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
>>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 9:33 AM Murali S via Advaita-l <
>>>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Learned members,
>>>> > I have a low level doubt.Has Shankara Bhagavadpadha 'identified'
>>>> himself as
>>>> > someone from dravida country in his bhashyaas or in narratives found
>>>> in
>>>> > shankara vijayam texts.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I have not seen any such identification by Shankara either in the
>>>> Bhashyam-s or in the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya. I am not familiar with
>>>> the
>>>> other hagiographical texts.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> subbu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Thanks
>>>> > S.Murali
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