[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** 'Panchikaranam' text referred in Panchadashi

[V Subrahmanian]

'Panchikaranam' text  referred in Panchadashi

Swami Vidyaranya refers to the text 'Panchikaranam': 9.64

उत्तरस्मिंस्तापनीये शैब्यप्रश्नेऽथ काठके ।
माण्डुक्यादौ च सर्वत्र निर्गुणोपास्तिरीरिता ॥ ६३॥
अनुष्ठानप्रकारोऽस्याः* पञ्चीकरण* ईरितः ।

ज्ञानसाधनमेतच्चेन्नेति केनात्र वर्णितम् ॥ ६४॥

It is traditionally held that this text is authored by Shankaracharya.
Perhaps the earliest mention of this work by name is in the Panchadashi.

One more noteworthy feature of the Panchikaranam is that Shankara mentions
the 'kāraṇa śarīram' by name:

https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_shankara/paJNchi.html?lang=sa

शरीरद्वयकारणमात्माज्ञानं
साभासमव्याकृतमित्युच्यते ।
     एतत् *कारणशरीरमात्मनः ।*
तच्च न सन्नासन्नापि सदसन्न भिन्नं नाभिन्नं
     नापि भिन्नाभिन्नं कुतश्चित्
न निरवयवं न सावयवं
     नोभयं किंतु
केवलब्रह्मात्मैकत्वज्ञानापनोद्यम् ॥ ४॥


Shankara identifies the karana shariram as the ajnana that underlies
samsara. He also states that it cannot be treated as existence or
otherwise, implying its anirvachaniyatvam.

Sureshwaracharya, in the vartika too, in two verses, 39 and 40, comments on
the above karana shariram. Shankara has referred to the karana shariram in
the Ishavasya 8 bhashya too:

शुद्धं निर्मलमविद्यामलरहितमिति कारणशरीरप्रतिषेधः ।

The above means: Brahman/Atman is distinct from the jiva in being devoid of
the kaarana shariram, which is the seed ignorance that gives rise to the
subtle and gross bodies.

The Panchikarana Vartika, just as admitting the Hiranyagarbha (sutratma) to
be a product of the apanchikrta pancha bhutas in 6, admits of the Viraat to
be the product of the panchikrta pancha bhutas in 7.

The specification of the adhideivata for each organ, in this text is seen
to be there in the Sarva vedanta siddhanta saara sangraha.

Om Tat Sat