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

[Kalyan]

 //On an aside, the Srimadbhagavatam, a work which has existed even at the time of Ramanuja and reportedly cited by Parashara Bhatta, a contemporary of Ramanuja, has countless references to Veda Vyasa as 'Badarayana' and his son Shukha as 'Badarayani'.//



Leaving aside the question of whether bhagavatam really existed by the time of Ramanuja, what I want to know is whether Ramanuja identifies Badarayana with Vyasa. I was told there is no such equation, but I have not read Ramanuja's BSB, so I am not able to confirm it. 


    On Monday, July 16, 2018, 7:39:02 PM GMT+5:30, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 

2018-07-16 18:36 GMT+05:30 Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com>:

 None of your quotes seem to be saying that vyAsa is the author of brahmasUtras. Or am I missing something? 

The following quote I cited from Shankara is a direct reference to a Brahma sutra:  The highlighted words of Shankara is a paraphrasing of the Brahmasutra: एतेन शिष्टापरिग्रहा अपि व्याख्याताः ॥ १२ ॥  2.1.12 which contains the two words 'shishTa and aparigraha'.  I have given the context too. The sentence cited below is from the bhashyam of this very sutra and Shankara says 'ShishTa-s (pious followers of the Veda) like Manu and Vyasa have not accepted the doctrines that propose atom, etc. as the cause of the universe.

BSB 2.1.12:

………परिग्रहाः अपरिग्रहाः ; शिष्टानामपरिग्रहाः शिष्टापरिग्रहाः ; एतेन प्रकृतेन प्रधानकारणवादनिराकरणकारणेन ; शिष्टैर्मनुव्यासप्रभृतिभिः केनचिदप्यंशेनापरिगृहीता येऽण्वादिकारणवादाः, तेऽपि प्रतिषिद्धतया व्याख्याता निराकृता द्रष्टव्याः ; तुल्यत्वान्निराकरणकारणस्य………
Here Veda Vyasa is the sutrakara.
In the above, the context is: there are many non-vedantic schools which claim various entities as the 'cause of the world', like the atoms (vaisheshika), pradhana (sankhya, etc.) and all of them are refuted by Veda Vyasa. This has happened only in the Brahma sutras with specific sutra for each school. Thus, Shankara is clear that the Brahma sutras are of Veda Vyasa.
On an aside, the Srimadbhagavatam, a work which has existed even at the time of Ramanuja and reportedly cited by Parashara Bhatta, a contemporary of Ramanuja, has countless references to Veda Vyasa as 'Badarayana' and his son Shukha as 'Badarayani'.  
regards