[Advaita-l] vedAntins at the time of shankara

[Kalyan]

Vishishthadvaitins hold that Bodhayana is the same as Upavarsha, that Shankara refers to. Both Shankara and Bhaskara hold Upavarsha in high esteem, even though their schools are different, so it cannot be claimed for certain that Upavarsha was an advaitin.

Narayana Panditacharya, the biographer of Madhva, refers to a vrittikAra as one of the commentators on BS. Bodhayana or Upavarsha (whether or not they are the same person) could be this vrittikAra.

//The schools that
 Shankara refutes in the second chapter of BSB are all
 non-Vedantic//

This does not prove anything. Bhartrprapancha, a bhedAbhedavAdin, has written a commentary on BS (according to Narayana Panditacharya) and I dont remember that he is refuted by Shankara in the second chapter.  Just because no other vedantic school was refuted by Shankara in the 2nd chapter, it does not mean that there was no other vedantic school at the time of Shankara.

Regards
Kalyan


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On Sat, 9/16/17, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] vedAntins at the time of shankara
 To: "Kalyan" <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Date: Saturday, September 16, 2017, 3:45 PM
 
 
 
 On 16 Sep
 2017 20:44, "Kalyan" <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 In the
 following blog of yours, you state that there was no
 non-advaitic vedanta school prior to Shankara -
 
 
 
 
 
 https://www.google.co.in/amp/
 s/adbhutam.wordpress.com/2013/
 03/12/no-non-advaitic-vedanta- prior-to-shankara/amp/
 
 
 
 
 
 Is there any reason for the change of heart?
 
 There has been no change of heart. I
 only reported what those schools claim. Advaitins hold, for
 instance, if the Bodhayana vritti was really extant during
 Shankara's time, scholarly awareness would have been
 there. While Shankara has commented upon certain views in
 the bhashyas, this would also have found a place. But
 Shankara states that about the Upanishadvadins' common
 view.
 The schools that
 Shankara refutes in the second chapter of BSB are all
 non-Vedantic.
 RegardsVS
 
 
 
 
 
 Regards
 
 Kalyan
 
 
 
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 On Sat, 9/16/17, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 
 
  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] vedAntins at the time of
 shankara
 
  To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
 <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 vedanta.org>, "Kalyan" <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>
 
  Date: Saturday, September 16, 2017, 11:17 AM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  On 16 Sep
 
  2017 11:54, "Kalyan via Advaita-l" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
 vedanta.org>
 
  wrote:
 
  //Completely dualistic schools of
 
  Vedanta are a relatively recent
 
 
 
  development.  The
 
  only dualists in early times were Samkhyas.  It is
 they
 
 
 
  that Shankaracharya is contrasting with
 
  "followers of the Upanishads."//
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  I agree. Strict dualism in vedAnta is relatively new. One
 of
 
  the views floating around here is that post-advaitic
 rival
 
  vedAntic schools were caused by the difference in the
 views
 
  among the advaitins. I don't know how far this is
 
  true.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  The way I see it, the advent of these new rival
 vedAntic
 
  schools is probably due to a theistic reaction to the
 
  perceived non-theism of advaita. Neither sAmkhya nor
 early
 
  bhedAbheda were theistic. The new vedAntic schools came
 to
 
  fill in the theistic gap.
 
 
 
  Both the adherents of the two rival
 
  schools clearly say that their Acharyas brought to the
 fore
 
  what was already in vogue. Madhwas trace their system
 to
 
  Narayana, Brahma.. Ramanujas too say theirs is a firm
 
  preexistent system. Bodhayana vritti on the Brahmsutra
 is
 
  the basis for the Sribhashya they say. Their system was
 
  practiced by the Azhwars they claim.
 
  Narayana pandita in Manimanjari even
 
  gives names of several Tirthas who preceded
 
  Madhva.
 
  RegardsVS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Regards
 
 
 
  Kalyan
 
 
 
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