[Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara

Sunil Bhattacharjya sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 9 01:01:53 CST 2017


Dear Venkatraghavanji,

As you see Pathak has quoted the manuscript partially. There were other people also, who  wrote on Abhinava Shankara. I wish more and more people be inqiuisitive, do some research themselves and bring out more of  these things. The Shankara-mathas had great scholars in the past and due credit should be given to all of them. Hope you will also begin your quest and not just join the wagon of the arm-chair critics. 

Regards,
Sunil KB


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On Sun, 1/8/17, Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara
 To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, "Vidyasankar Sundaresan" <svidyasankar at gmail.com>, "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
 Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 10:51 PM
 
 Dear Sunilji,Excellent, thank you. So if you had the
 paper already and has read it, why, pray, did you ask Sri
 Vidyasankar for it? 
 Also please tell me where in the
 paper  does
 Pathak claim that the manuscript that he discovered says
 that Abhinava Shankara was born in 788 in Chidambaram? Here
 is what you said previously: 
 "I think Sri  Nava
 Shankara was indeed a great scholar and if I remember correctly
 the manuscript, which Pathak found and on that basis he
 (Pathak) wrote a paper, Nava (Abhinava) Shankara was
 born  in 788 CE in Chidambaram."
 
 Regards,Venkatraghavan
 On 9 Jan 2017 2:19 a.m.,
 "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
 > wrote:
 Dear Venkataraghavanji,
 
 
 
 As you have doubt, here is the paper of Pathak, which I
 read.
 
 
 
 Regards,
 
 Sunil KB
 
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 On
 Sun, 1/8/17, Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 
 
  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi
 Shankara
 
  To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
 >
 
  Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita
 Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedan
 ta.org>, "Vidyasankar Sundaresan" <svidyasankar at gmail.com>,
 "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
 
  Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 12:14 PM
 
 
 
  Dear
 
  Sunilji,
 
  Were you making a
 
  reference to Pathak's paper without actually having
 read
 
  it?
 
  Regards,Venkatraghavan
 
 
 
  On 8 Jan 2017 7:17 p.m.,
 
  "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
 >
 
  wrote:
 
  Dear
 
  Vidyasanarji,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Can you please attach the paper of Pathak?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Regards,
 
 
 
  Sunil kKB
 
 
 
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  On Sun, 1/8/17,
 
  Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at gmail.com>
 
  wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of
 Adi
 
  Shankara
 
 
 
   To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
 
  >
 
 
 
   Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita
 Vedanta"
 
  <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 
  vedanta.org>, advaitin at yahoogroups.com,
 
  "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>,
 
  "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>
 
 
 
   Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 1:11 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   On Jan 6, 2017 11:03 PM, "Sunil Bhattacharjya
 via
 
 
 
   Advaita-l" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 
 
 
   vedanta.org> wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   > Dear Subbuji,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   > I think Sri  Nava Shankara was indeed a great
 
  scholar
 
 
 
   and if I remember correctly the manuscript, which
 
  Pathak
 
 
 
   found and on that basis he (Pathak) wrote a paper,
 Nava
 
 
 
   (Abhinava) Shankara was born  in 788 CE in
 
  Chidambaram.
 
 
 
   This Nava Shankara is reported to have also written
 
  many
 
 
 
   texts including bhashyas and had gone to Kashmoir as
 well
 
  as
 
 
 
   to Kailash.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
   Dear Sunilji,
 
 
 
   I have read Pathak's paper in the Indian
 
 
 
   Antiquary. It says nothing about Nava Shankara or
 about
 
 
 
   Chidambaram. The paper attributes the date 788 CE to
 
  Adi
 
 
 
   Shankara and nobody else. You cannot cite Pathak in
 
  support
 
 
 
   of this fanciful theory of an 8th century Nava
 
  Shankara.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   There might have some confusion in the past as the
 name
 
  of
 
 
 
   both Adi Shankara and the Nava Shankara was
 Shankara. 
 
  It
 
 
 
   appears that Anantaanandagiri  had written a
 biography
 
  of
 
 
 
   Nava Shanaka.  Antarkar had done some work on the
 
 
 
   shankaravijayas  as part of his PhD work but did not
 
 
 
   continue that work to sort out all confusions
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
   Sorry, anantAnandagiri also says nothing about
 
 
 
   Nava Shankara. His text claims to be an account only
 of
 
  Adi
 
 
 
   Shankara. However, it is an extremely problematic
 text.
 
 
 
   At the risk of sounding like I'm doing
 
 
 
   self-promotion, please note that I have published an
 
 
 
   extensive paper in the year 2000, published in The
 
 
 
   International Journal of Hindu Studies, examining
 
 
 
   Antarkar's papers as well as many of the original
 
 
 
   Sankaravijaya texts. I have sent this by email to you
 
  as
 
 
 
   well. I am only mentioning this here so that others
 
 
 
   following this thread are aware of it. I
 
 
 
   too hope that further research is taken up on these
 
  texts,
 
 
 
   but I hope that whoever does it adopts sound research
 
 
 
   methodology and works towards clarifying matters
 rather
 
  than
 
 
 
   confusing them even further. Regards, Vidyasankar
 
 
 
   > May be there is scope for more research
 
 
 
   and hope some university or some organization will
 
  sponsor
 
 
 
   PhD level research in this area.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   > Regards,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   > Sunil KB
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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   > On Fri, 1/6/17, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l
 
  <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 
 
 
   vedanta.org> wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The
 Bhashyas
 
  of
 
 
 
   Adi Shankara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  To: "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>,
 
 
 
   "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
 
  <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 
 
 
   vedanta.org>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Date: Friday, January 6, 2017, 1:39 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  1:56 PM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 
 
 
   vedanta.org>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  > Namaste Sri
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Vidyasankar,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  > The number of the works
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  that are called bhAshya in the mAdhavIya
 Sankara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  > vijaya (I sent the references earlier)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  when read in conjunction with the
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  DiNDima appear to be 16 in number. The next
 verse
 
  in
 
 
 
   the
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Sankara vijaya
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  > says that Adi Sankara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  wrote innumerable granthAs such as upadeSa
 
  sAhasri,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  > so these are apparently classified in a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  different category compared to
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  bhAShyas.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  There is also a text called
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  'hastāmalaka-bhāṣyam' which is
 
  admitted
 
 
 
   in
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  the
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  tradition to be a commentary penned by
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Shankara on the verses given out by
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  the
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  disciple Hastamalaka. This text is also
 published
 
  by
 
 
 
   the
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Vani Vilas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  Press, Srirangam.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  regards
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >  vs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   >
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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