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

[Kalyan]

A complete praise of Sankhya philosophy of Kapila is found here in the Mahabharata - 

The Mahabharata, Book 12: Santi Parva: Section CCCII



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The Mahabharata, Book 12: Santi Parva: Section CCCII

The Mahabharata, Book 12: Santi Parva: K.M. Ganguli translation, at sacred-texts.com
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    On Saturday, July 14, 2018, 12:21:07 AM GMT+5:30, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
  //The term 'sankhya-yoga' has different meanings. In Vedanta, it means that which is according to the Upanishads, with Brahman as the cause of the universe.  The 'sankhya' that is refuted in the BS is the one which has the insentient pradhana as the cause of the universe. In the BG itself this term occurs several times.//
Since in the Mahabharata, the Sankhya is mentioned apart from Vedas, it cannot be the case that Sankhya there means just the Upanishad doctrine.

//Regarding the Pancharatra, it is undoubtedly a system that is refuted in the BS as it occurs in the chapter - section 2.2 where several un-vedantic schools are refuted. //

We have to then admit the possibility that Badarayana, the author of the Brahmasutras is not same as Vyasa who composed Mahabharata. Because in the quotes that I gave, both Sankhya and Pancharatra are equated to the vedas.
 

    On Saturday, July 14, 2018, 12:14:46 AM GMT+5:30, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 The term 'sankhya-yoga' has different meanings. In Vedanta, it means that which is according to the Upanishads, with Brahman as the cause of the universe.  The 'sankhya' that is refuted in the BS is the one which has the insentient pradhana as the cause of the universe. In the BG itself this term occurs several times.