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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> So what if Bhaskara paid obeisance to Badarayana, the sutra author? What
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The obvious has not been grasped.  The above shows that even in Shankara's
time the Vyasa-Badarayana identity as author of Brahmasutras was very well
established. That is why the Bhamati, Bhaskara and Shankara quotes were
given.

Regarding the Manu-Vyasa issue, there is no Manu-BS authorship connection
by any author, as far as I know. On the contrary there is only the
Vyasa-Badarayana-BS connection by all authors.

Also, there is no known place other than the Brahma sutra where the
non-vedantic ideas about cause of universe such as atom, is dealt with. So,
the Shankara's BSB passage is the evidence for Shankara seeing Vyasa as the
author of BS.  Shankara has cited Manu and Vyasa (from MB) for there being
one undivided non-dual sentient entity as supporting the Advaitic Vedantic
doctrine.

Also, there is the name 'Badarayana' occurring several times in the BS
themselves.. But in no instance Shankara seems to identify this person as
the author of the BS. (So with Bhaskara in all those instances within the
BS). He very respectfully refers to him as 'Acharya' and 'Bhagavan'.  This
person, a Vedantin, appears to be someone earlier to Veda Vyasa.   I have
not checked the Madhva and Ramanuja bhashyas for any 'this' Badarayana-BS
author identity.

regards

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