[Advaita-l] Regarding the Pancharatra, Shankara is one with Purvamimamsa

[Kalyan]

The Mahabharata has very high regard for the Pancharatra and Sankhya systems. These systems are treated almost on par with the vedas. Regarding the Pancharatra and Samkhya systems, the Mahabharata has the following to say - 

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c049.htm    


[They that are conversant with the *Pancharatra* scriptures, that are duly observant of the duties laid down therein, and that are devoted to Narayana with their whole souls, succeed in entering into Narayana. The *Sankhya* and the Yoga systems are eternal.]


http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c039.htm    

[This great Upanishad, perfectly consist with the four Vedas, in harmony with *Sankhya-yoga*, and called by him by the name of the *Pancharatra* scriptures, and recited by Narayana himself with his own mouth, was repeated by Narada in the presence of many hearers in the abode of Brahman (his sire) in exactly the same way in which Narayana (while that great god had showed himself unto him) had recited it, and in which he had heard it from his own lips.]


http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c038.htm     


[..... who is incapable of being understood except by those scriptures that are called *Pancharatra*, who never shrinks from anything, who is unvanquished, who is only Mind (without a physical frame), who is known only by name, who is the Lord of Brahman himself, who has completed all the vows and observances mentioned in the Vedas, 3 who is the Hansa (bearer of the triple stick), who is the Parama-hansa (divested of stick), who is the foremost of all sacrifices, who is *Sankhya-yoga*, who is the embodiment of the *Sankhya* philosophy, who dwells in all Jivas, who lives in every heart, who resides in every sense....]

It is therefore inconceivable that vyAsa would refute either the Pancharatra or the Sankhya systems.