[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Works of Sri Vidyashankara

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste,
Sri VedAnta deSika, an eminent VishishTadvaitin, in his commentary on the
Gita mentions a list of commentators from other traditions of the Gita
(18.66) - पिशाच - रन्तिदेव - गुप्त - शङ्कर - यादवप्रकाश - भास्कर -
नारायणार्य - यज्ञस्वामि - प्रभृतिभि:.

This list is generally considered to be in chronological order (I believe F
Otto Schrader discusses this in one of his works). Secondly, VedAnta
deSika, being a visiShTAdvaitin, cannot be said to have a vested interest
in attributing the gIta bhAshya to Shankaracharya (i.e. with a view to
improve the latter's bibliography).  Thirdly, Sri DeSika is known as a
contemporary of Sri VidyAraNya, who was Sri VidyASankara's disciple. If the
gIta bhAshya was indeed composed by Sri VidyASankara, then I would imagine
that Sri DeSika would be better placed to opine on it than say, us, as he
was one generation below Sri VidyASankara.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan


On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> (Apologies, my earlier reply missed this list)
>
> Namaste Sunilji,
>
> If that feeling were to be true, what could be the reason for the earlier
> *Bhashyakara* Shankaracharya's works to survive while the followers' works
> to vanish, if existent?
>
> Under kenavAkyabhAShya, the TIkAkAra says in its very first line that since
> kenamantra was not analysed in the shArirIka-nyAya, therefore, Bhashyakara
> wrote the vAkyabhAShya, even after writing the padabhAShya! That should be
> sufficient to establish that both, the padabhAShya as well as vAkyabhAShya
> are from the same Bhagavatpadacharya's pen. The gitabhAShya doesn't even
> need a defence to establish that it is Bhashyakara's work, because we
> wouldn't have a prasthAna*traya* otherwise!
>
> gurupAdukAbhyAm,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* Through what should one know That owing to which all this is known!
> [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya
> sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > There is a feeling among many that the Shankara-bhashya on the Bhagavad
> > gita as well as the Shankara- vakyabhashya on the Kena Upanishad may not
> be
> > the works of Adi Shankara.
> >
> > It is generally believed that after the genius of Adi Shankara there were
> > two great scholars, Sri Abhinava Shankara and Sri Vidyasankara, and this
> > should obviously mean that these two great scholars also could have left
> > their great works. It will be nice, if any scholar has any idea on the
> > works of Sri Vidyashankara, he or she may kindly let us know about that.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sunil KB
> >
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