[Advaita-l] Shrimad Bhagvatam?

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 11:53:02 CST 2017


On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Kripa Shankar <kripa.shankar.0294 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for  the input. I don't know anything about Sridhar Swamy and so
> I'll reserve my comment. Any clues as to which parampara he comes from?
>

The 'Advaita Vedanta Literature Bibliographical Survey' by Thangaswamy
places Sridhara Swamin to be the disciple of 'Paramananda Tirtha', from the
dedication verse. Period 1400-1500 CE.

>
> The fact that Ramanuja, the foremost among the Vaishnava/pancharatra
> school has not mentioned Srimad Bhagavatam anywhere weighs down Sharma's
> (possibly weak) defence.  BNK Sharma, to my little knowledge has made many
> a claims which are not accepted by Advaitins. I am also curious to know the
> exact reference which he points to.
>

I have not seen the paper of BNK, though, but came to know about this
finding through another scholar in BVP. I asked for the exact references in
Abhinava Gupta's commentary where the citation is found but got no reply.

regards
vs

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