[Advaita-l] Is Badarayana same as Vyasa?

[K Kathirasan]

Namaste


This reference to Vyasa from Upadesha Sahasri could be referring to Vyasa, the author of Mahabharata (therefore, the Bhagavad Gita). Moreover, Shankara uses the word Vyasa in Brahma Sutra Bhashya 2.1.12 clustering it with Manu as if he was not the author of the Brahma Sutras and a person from the past. In the Gita introduction, Shankara clearly attributed the Gita to be authored by Vyasa. And Sureshvara too quotes Vyasa in his Vartika and the Naishkarmyasiddhi with untraceable verses (not from the Brahma Sutras). Both Shankara and Sureshvara address Vyasa as Sarvavedarthatattvavit (somewhat)  and hence the Upadesha Sahasri could be referring to the all-knowing Vyasa who is the author of Mahabharata and the Puranas perhaps. 

Kathirasan K




> On 17 Jul 2018, at 5:46 PM, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> Namaste.
> 
> I had given the reference in my previous post copied here again for ready
> use.
> 
> Upadesha Sahasri, metric part, 16-67 is copied here.
> 
> << श्रद्धाभक्ती पुरस्कृत्य हित्वा सर्वमनार्जवम् I
> 
> वेदान्तस्यैव तत्वार्थे व्यास्स्याभिमतौ तथा II >>
> 
> << shraddhAbhaktI puraskRRitya hitvA sarvamanArjavam I
> 
> vedAntasyaiva  tatvArthe vyAssyAbhimatau tathA II >>
> Regards
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:13 PM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:08 PM, H S Chandramouli via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Namaste Sri Bhaskar Ji,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don’t think that is what Sri SSS has said. While dismissing the surmises
>>> of the western scholars, this is exactly what he has dismissed. From what
>>> I
>>> understand of Sri SSS, what he has said is that while there is no mention
>>> of the identity as between Sri Badarayana and Sri Vyasa in the Bhashya
>>> itself, based on the reference in Upadesha Sahasri there can be no
>>> objection to concluding that, according to Sri Bhagavatpada, they (krishna
>>> dvaipAyana vyAsa or bhArata kara vyAsa and sUtrakAra bAdarAyaNa )  are one
>>> and the same. This is my reading of the text by Sri SSS.
>>> 
>> 
>> Could you please give the Upadesha Sahasri references if any that you
>> could give without much effort?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> vs
>> 
>>> 
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