[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Shri Praudhadevaraya, a king of Vijayanagara, has authroed a vritti on Brahma-sutra.

[Krishna Kashyap]

Interestingly, the editor is my teacher Sri KSV of this Pradadevaraya book!

Incidentally, there was a Souvenir release for the Centenary Celebration of
Sri KSV by Gangadharendra Swami of Swarnavalli Matha.

See brochure
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12t4N9iJekAm1WhYEycdE3l3ur5xcqnvJ/view?usp=sharing


*Best Regards,*

*Krishna Kashyap*




On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 3:34 AM Raghav Kumar via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> NamasteWhat's quite strange is how later Vijayanagara kings veered towards
> srivaishnavism on account of witnessing some miraculous displays. They did
> not outright disown the Advaita tradition (which already validates bhakti
> in all forms) but seemed disproportionately attracted to srivaishnava
> theology.
>
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>
>   On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 at 6:15 pm, V Subrahmanian<v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> A post from Shri Natraj Maneshinde:
>
>
> In the Mangalacharana, he invokes Bhagavan Ganapati with the popular verse
> :
>
> वागीशाद्याः सुमनसः सर्वार्थानामुपक्रमे ।
> यं नत्वा कृतकृत्याः स्युस्तं नमामि गजाननं ॥
>
> This verse is actually composed by Bhagavan Sayanacharya which can be
> found in the Mangalacharana of his Madhaveeya Vedartha Prakasha, the
> commentary on all extant Veda-shakhas.
>
> Praudhadevaraya also invokes Bhagavan Bhavanipati Virupaksha who is
> described as the Pratyagatman.
>
> Finally, Bhagavatpada has also been reverently invoked.
>
> यद्भाष्यामृतपानेन जरामरणवर्जितम् ।
> पदं याता हि विबुधाः शङ्करं नौमि तं गुरुम् ॥
>
> [ I bow down to Guru Shankara, by drinking whose Bhashya-amruta, the wise
> attain the state of immortality]
>
> It is heartening to see the king’s shraddha towards Advaita Sampradaya and
> Bhagavatpada.
>
> The book can be downloaded here:
>
> https://archive.org/details/fudh_brahma-sutra-vrtti-of-prauda-devraya-series-no.-136-oriental-research-institute-mysore/page/n13/mode/2up
> Om
>
>
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