[Advaita-l] Did Vyaasa mean Athaato Vishnu Jijnaasaa or Shiva Jijnaasaa?

[Srinath Vedagarbha]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>
> अथवा न विद्यते राः धनं यस्य स अराः निर्धन इति यावत् । स निर्धनो न
> भवतीति नाराः धनाधिपः कुबेर इत्यर्थः । तं सख्येन अणयति संलपतीति नारायण
> इति व्युत्पत्तिमाश्रित्य शिव एव गृह्यते ।
>
> Raa is wealth and Araa is poor person. Naaraa is not poor person. This
> means he is Lord of Wealth Kubera. He is talking Anayati to Kubera as
> a friend. Therefore He is Narayana. He is Siva only. This is the
> meaning.
>

Narayana is Vishnu only -- do not forget direct shruti pramAna --
 nArayanAya vidmahey vAsudEvAya dhimaI tanno *vishNu* prachOdayAt

Now, who is arguing on kutarka and who is arguing on shruti pramANa?


/sv