[Advaita-l] Re: Vakyapadiya 3.3.72, does it refer to Advaita? (Rishi Lamichhane)

[Rishi Lamichhane]

Dear Vidyasankar,

Thank you for your reply. Here is the verses (in free transliteration)
for those whom the transliteration with the unusual characters did not
come properly:

tattvaanyatvaparityaage vyvavahaaro nirvartate
yatra drashTaa ca drshyam ca darshanam caavikalpitam/ 3.3.71

tasayaivaarthasya satyatvam shritaas trayyantavedinah
saamaanyam vaa vishesham vaa yasmaad aahur visheshavat/ 3.3.72

I did not know MM quoted this in Brahmasiddhi. In any case it is
interesting historically for various reasons. It among other things
shows that this is what people considered "Vedanta" back then, and
unlike what some scholars still think, Kevala Advaita didn't begin all
of the sudden with Gaudapada,

Rishi.

On 11/14/05, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >ātmatattvaṃ tu parataḥ svato vā nopakalpate // BVaky_3,3.70 //
> >tattve virodho nānātva upakāro na kaś cana /
> >
> >tattvānyatvaparityāge vyavahāro nivartate // BVaky_3,3.71 //
> >yatra draṣṭā ca dṛśyaṃ ca darśanaṃ cāvikalpitam /
> >
> >tasyaivārthasya satyatvaṃ śritās trayyantavedinaḥ // BVaky_3,3.72 //
> >sāmānyaṃ vā viśeṣaṃ vā yasmād āhur viśeṣavat /
> >
> >I do not know Sanskrit, so I cannot translate it. Can someone
> >confirm/reject the translation given?
> >
>
> Yes, the gist is substantially correct. The fonts used to transliterate must
>
> have been rendered differently in different people's browsers, but one can
> make out the words. The second half of verse 3.3.71 talks of the state where
>
> (yatra) the seer (draShTA), the seen (dRSya) and the seeing (darSana) are
> not differentiated (avikalpitam). The first half of verse 3.3.72 says that
> only (eva) the reality of (satyatva) this state (tasya) is stated by those
> who know (vedinaH) the vedAnta (trayyanta). The term trayI is often used to
>
> refer to the vedas, so trayI + anta = trayyanta = veda + anta = vedAnta.
>
> If I remember right, maNDana miSra quotes this portion of vAkyapadIya in his
>
> brahmasiddhi,
>
> Regards,
> Vidyasankar
>
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