[Advaita-l] pu~Ngava-ketana of Adi sa~NkarAchArya in toTaka aShTakam

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Ramakrishna Upadrasta <
uramakrishna at gmail.com> wrote:

> namaste,
>
> Is there any explanation for the term pu~Ngava-ketana (meaning "flag
> bearing the emblem of Bull") of Adi-sha~NkarAchArya  in verse#7 of
> toTaka-aShTaka?
>
> namaste
> Ramakrishna
>

The words are: gurupungava pungavaketana

'O The Best among Gurus ! You are none other than Shiva who is
RShabhadhwajaH.'

The first address (sambodhana) is akin to Krishna addressing Arjuna as
'bharataRShabha' (the scion/foremost among the Bharata race)

In an earlier verse ToTaka had said: bhava eva bhavAniti mey nitarAm.. [I
consider You to be none other than Bhava (Shiva)..]

So, here he addresses Shankara as Shiva who is  RShabhadhwajaH.

This is my understanding.

Regards,
subrahmanian.v

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