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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> //Madhva is said to have written the 'Mahabharata Tatparya nirnaya' which
> must have taken all that is said in the Mahabharata into consideration in
> order to give out a distilled purport of MB.  If he too has refuted
> sankhya, can we assume that he has not understood the 'sankhya' of MB?//
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> This is a strange question, coming from an advaitin.
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> For advaitins, Madhva has not understood the upanishads properly. How then
> can an advaitin argue that Madhva must have understood Mahabharata properly?
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I was only trying to say that there are some agreements across the three
schools:  All hold the Vyasa-Badarayana identity.  All hold the Sankhya,
Patanjala Yoga, Vaisheshika, Nyaya, Pashupata to be purvapaksha
non-Vedantic schools and refuted.

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