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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> //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'.//
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> 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.
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I think you can make a search in George Thibaut's translation of the Sri
Bhashyam of Ramanuja.  If it is a searchable document the task will be
easy. In any case Bhaskara who pre-dated Ramanuja has clearly said
Badarayana is the author of the brahma sutra.

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