[Advaita-l] Women and Paramahamsa sannyasa

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Venkata sriram P
<venkatasriramp at yahoo.in>wrote:

> Dear Sunilji,
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> Do you really want to call the Mahabharata a smriti?
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> What is there to object when Acharya Himself is stating.  Moreover,
> Bhagavagita which is a part of Mahabharata is also called
> *smriti-prasthAna*
> among prasthAna-trayAs.
>

In fact apart from quoting from the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita,
perhaps the maximum quotes that Shankara gives in the prasthAnatraya is
from the Mahabharatha.

subrahmanian.v

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