[Advaita-l] Prashthana traya

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I have a couple of querries :
>
> 1. Where was the first mention of the Sanskrit phrase"Prashthanatraya" ?
>

Difficult to trace; it is not in Shankara's bhāṣya though.

>
> 2, Did anywhere Adi Shankaracharya say that he was the first to write a
> bhashya on the Bhagavad Gita?
>

No. On the other hand, he has said in the introduction to the Bh.gita
bhashya that there have been many commentaries to it before him.

तदिदं गीताशास्त्रं समस्तवेदार्थसारसङ्ग्रहभूतं दुर्विज्ञेयार्थम्,
*तदर्थाविष्करणायानेकैर्विवृतपदपदार्थवाक्यार्थन्यायमपि
*अत्यन्तविरुद्धानेकार्थवत्वेन लौकिकैर्गृह्यमाणमुपलभ्य अहं
विवेकतोऽर्थनिर्धारणार्थं सङ्क्षेपतो विवरणं करिष्यामि ॥

>
> 3,  Did anywhere Sri Ramanuja and Sri Madhvacharya say that they were
> writing the Bhagavad Gita bhashya to refute the views in Adi
> Shaankaracharya's bashya on the Bhagavad Gita.
>

No idea.

regards
> subbu
>



> What I find is that from the linguistic considerations some scholars found
> that the composition in the so-called Bhagavad Gitabhashya of Adi
> Shankaracharya is different from the literary style of Adi Shankarachrya's
> other compositons. I personally feel that had it been Adi Shankaracharya's
> composition, he would have written a bhshya on the original Bhagavad Gita
> of 745 verses, which has the ajativada verse (verse of non-creation), which
> Gaudapadacharya included in his Mandukya karika.
>
> Regards,
> SunilKB
>
>
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