vedic "saakhaa of "sa.mkara and sure"svara (was Re: [Advaita-l] Ganesha)

[Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian]

I got curious about this and did some checking. I was able to trace
this to the maadhaviiya "sa.mkara digvijayam of "srii vidyaara.nya

Refer to 13.65-13.66, where "sa.mkara instructs sure"svara to write
vaartikas on his bhaa.syas instead of the suutra bhaa.syam

mama yaaju.sii yaa "saakhaa ... tadvaartika.m mama k.rta bhavataa pra.neya.m and

tadvat tvadiiyaa khalu kaa.nva "saakhaa mamaapi tatraasti tadantabhaa.syam |
tadvaartika.m caapi vidheya ...

13.65 is quite clear.

Rama

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:32:21 -0400 (EDT), Jaldhar H. Vyas
<jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian wrote:
> 
> > Have "sa.mkara and sure"svara mentioned which veda they
> > belonged to in their works or is it from tradition/the "sa.mkara
> > vijayams? If we are going by probability,
> 
> I'm not sure of the source but it is definitely a long-standing tradition
> that Sureshvaracharya chose the taitteriya and brhadaranyaka upanishads to
> compose varttikas on because one belonged to his shakha and one to his
> Gurus shakha.