[Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara

[Sunil Bhattacharjya]

Dear Vidyasankarji,

The paper of Pathak, which I read, clearly mentions "Nava Shankara" and not Adi Shankara. Can you please send me the paper of Pathak, which  you claim to have read ?
 person  as the "Anandagiri". If you think they are the same person. Ccan you please let me know the source of your information?

Regards,
Sunil KB

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On Sun, 1/8/17, Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi Shankara
 To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>, "Vidyasankar Sundaresan" <svidyasankar at gmail.com>
 Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>, advaitin at yahoogroups.com, "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>, "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>
 Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 11:14 AM
 
 Dear Vidyasanarji,
 
 Can you please attach the paper of Pathak?
 
 Regards,
 Sunil KB
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 On Sun, 1/8/17, Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of Adi
 Shankara
  To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
  Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>,
 advaitin at yahoogroups.com,
 "V Subrahmanian" <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>,
 "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>
  Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017, 1:11 AM
  
  
  
  On Jan 6, 2017 11:03 PM, "Sunil Bhattacharjya via
  Advaita-l" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
  vedanta.org> wrote:
  
  >
  
  > Dear Subbuji,
  
  >
  
  > I think Sri  Nava Shankara was indeed a great
 scholar
  and if I remember correctly the manuscript, which Pathak
  found and on that basis he (Pathak) wrote a paper, Nava
  (Abhinava) Shankara was born  in 788 CE in Chidambaram.
  This Nava Shankara is reported to have also written many
  texts including bhashyas and had gone to Kashmoir as well
 as
  to Kailash. 
  
  >
  Dear Sunilji,
  I have read Pathak's paper in the Indian
  Antiquary. It says nothing about Nava Shankara or about
  Chidambaram. The paper attributes the date 788 CE to Adi
  Shankara and nobody else. You cannot cite Pathak in
 support
  of this fanciful theory of an 8th century Nava Shankara.
  
  >
  
  There might have some confusion in the past as the name of
  both Adi Shankara and the Nava Shankara was Shankara.  It
  appears that Anantaanandagiri  had written a biography of
  Nava Shanaka.  Antarkar had done some work on the
  shankaravijayas  as part of his PhD work but did not
  continue that work to sort out all confusions
  
  >
  Sorry, anantAnandagiri also says nothing about
  Nava Shankara. His text claims to be an account only of
 Adi
  Shankara. However, it is an extremely problematic text.
  At the risk of sounding like I'm doing
  self-promotion, please note that I have published an
  extensive paper in the year 2000, published in The
  International Journal of Hindu Studies, examining
  Antarkar's papers as well as many of the original
  Sankaravijaya texts. I have sent this by email to you as
  well. I am only mentioning this here so that others
  following this thread are aware of it. I
  too hope that further research is taken up on these texts,
  but I hope that whoever does it adopts sound research
  methodology and works towards clarifying matters rather
 than
  confusing them even further. Regards, Vidyasankar
  > May be there is scope for more research
  and hope some university or some organization will sponsor
  PhD level research in this area.
  
  >
  
  > Regards,
  
  > Sunil KB
  
  > ------------------------------ --------------
  
  > On Fri, 1/6/17, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
  vedanta.org> wrote:
  
  >
  
  >  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] [advaitin] The Bhashyas of
  Adi Shankara
  
  >  To: "Venkatraghavan S" <agnimile at gmail.com>,
  "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
  vedanta.org>
  
  >  Date: Friday, January 6, 2017, 1:39 AM
  
  >
  
  >  On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at
  
  >  1:56 PM, Venkatraghavan S via Advaita-l <
  
  >  advaita-l at lists.advaita-
  vedanta.org>
  
  >  wrote:
  
  >
  
  >  > Namaste Sri
  
  >  Vidyasankar,
  
  >  > The number of the works
  
  >  that are called bhAshya in the mAdhavIya Sankara
  
  >  > vijaya (I sent the references earlier)
  
  >  when read in conjunction with the
  
  >  >
  
  >  DiNDima appear to be 16 in number. The next verse
 in
  the
  
  >  Sankara vijaya
  
  >  > says that Adi Sankara
  
  >  wrote innumerable granthAs such as upadeSa sAhasri,
  
  >  > so these are apparently classified in a
  
  >  different category compared to
  
  >  >
  
  >  bhAShyas.
  
  >  >
  
  >
  
  >  There is also a text called
  
  >  'hastāmalaka-bhāṣyam' which is admitted
  in
  
  >  the
  
  >  tradition to be a commentary penned by
  
  >  Shankara on the verses given out by
  
  >  the
  
  >  disciple Hastamalaka. This text is also published
 by
  the
  
  >  Vani Vilas
  
  >  Press, Srirangam.
  
  >
  
  >  regards
  
  >  vs
  
  >
  
  >
  
  >
  
  >  >
  
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