[Advaita-l] Meaning of Gayatri mantra

[Venkata Subramanian]

There is also one by Mayavaram Brahma Sri Sitarama Sastrigal. This Sandhyavandana Commentary (including on Gayatri Japa) has been published by Vani Vilas Press, Srirangam

Thanks & Regards,
Venkat.

Sadgurubhyo Namah.

--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rama.balasubramanian at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rama.balasubramanian at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Meaning of Gayatri mantra
To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 4:37 AM

I volunteer to proof-read the shankara bhashyam.

BTW, Gaudapada Karika is not directly relevant since it deals with om
and not gAyatrI - I know the connection, but there is a difference in
exegesis.

Rama

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Haresh Bakshi <hareshbakshi at gmail.com>
wrote:
> namaste, Surely, also GauDapaada kaarikaa (and sha.nkara commentary) --
> these being more than an adjunct.
>
> dhanyavaadaH |
> Haresh.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Ajit Krishnan
<ajit.krishnan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> namaste,
>>
>> I'm looking for sanskrit commentaries on the Gayatri mantra. I
will typeset
>> them and make the collection available.
>>
>> So far, I have the following:
>>
>> (a) various commentaries from vaidyanAtha dIkshitIyam (Mainly, from
>> smRiti-bhAskara, mantra-dIpikA, varadarAjA-s nitya-mantra-vyAkhyAna
>> and nirukta-bhAShyam)
>> (b) shankara bhAShyam on the relevant portion of the chAndogya
upaniShad
>> (c) "gAyatrI upanishad" portion of the gopatha-brAhmaNa
>> (d) gloss called "pratyag brahmaikya bodhikA" attributed to
shankara (from
>> Tamil Nadu)
>> (e) another bhAshyam attributed to shankara (from Andhra)
>> (f) gAyatrI-gItA
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for additional commentaries (including Sayana's),
as well
>> as different editions of d,e,f, since the source material I have is
full of
>> typos. I'm particularly looking for "(e) shankara
bhAShyam" since the copy
>> I
>> have is missing the remainder of the section which starts like this:
>> "yaH savitA devaH naH asmAkaM dhiyaH karmANi dharmAdi-viShayA vA
buddhiH
>> pracodayAt prerayet, tat tasya . . . "
>>
>> In anyone is interested in helping with the proofreading, please let
me
>> know, and I'll gladly take you up on the offer.
>>
>> bhavadIyaH,
>
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