[Advaita-l] References in Shankara's BSB

[Bhaskar YR]

Its interesting to see - Mandukya not quoted ..

praNAms
Hare Krishna

AFAIK shankara somewhere in sUtra bhAshya quotes kArika of mAndUkya and mentions his paramaguru's name gaudapAdAchArya  as 'saMpradAyavit' and 'vedAntArtha saMpradAyavit'.  But I donot know the exact reference.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar

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From: Advaita-l [mailto:advaita-l-bounces at lists.advaita-vedanta.org] On Behalf Of Ravi Kiran via Advaita-l
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Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] References in Shankara's BSB

Namaste

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:25 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l < advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Now the references to Upanishads which form the core of his commentary 
> on the Vedanta Sootras
>
> Upanishads:
>
> He isolated the Upanishad lore from the rest of the Vedic body and 
> narrowed it down to ten or twelve Upanishads. Even here, he did not 
> include the ritualistic portion of the Vedas. This was in contrast to 
> the classification followed by the later Acharyas.
>
> Paul Deuessen the German Indologist in his work” The Systems of the 
> Vedanta”, diligently counted the number of references made to 
> Upanishad texts in Sri Shankara’s Vedanta Sutra Bashya. He found, Sri 
> Shankara, in his Bashya, quoted Upanishad texts as many as 2,000 
> times. The Upanishads from which he quoted frequently and the number 
> of quotes were: Chandogya (810), Brihadaranyaka (567), Taitereya 
> (142), Manduka (129), Katha (103), Kaushitaki (88) and Svethavatara (53).
>
> The other Upanishads he referred to were: Prashna (39), Aithereya 
> (22), Jabaala (13), Ishavasya (8) and kena (5).
>

Its interesting to see - Mandukya not quoted ..


>
> Besides he quoted from “Agni Rahasya” (Shathapatha Brahmana), 
> Narayaniyam (Taitteriya Aranyaka) and “Pingani Rahasya Brahmana” as if 
> to suggest they carried as much authority as the Upanishads.
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