[Advaita-l] Is Badarayana same as Vyasa?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:16 PM, H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste.
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> I had given the reference in my previous post copied here again for ready
> use.
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> Upadesha Sahasri, metric part, 16-67 is copied here.
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>  << श्रद्धाभक्ती पुरस्कृत्य हित्वा सर्वमनार्जवम् I
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> वेदान्तस्यैव तत्वार्थे व्यास्स्याभिमतौ तथा II >>
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> << shraddhAbhaktI puraskRRitya hitvA sarvamanArjavam I
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> vedAntasyaiva  tatvArthe vyAssyAbhimatau tathA II >>
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Thanks for this reference. The reference is very clear.  In the BSB too
Shankara mentions Vyasa as 'Vedacharya.'

BSB 3.3.32

………चिन्ता, ब्रह्मविदामपि केषाञ्चित् इतिहासपुराणयोर्देहान्तरोत्पत्तिदर्शनात्
; तथा हि — अपान्तरतमा नाम वेदाचार्यः पुराणर्षिः विष्णुनियोगात् कलिद्वापरयोः
सन्धौ कृष्णद्वैपायनः सम्बभूवेति स्मरन्ति ; वसिष्ठश्च………

In Ishavasya bhashyam: He cites a Mahabharata verse and says - thus
instructed the Vedacharya Vyasa to his son.

(मो. ध. २४१ । ६) इत्यादि पुत्राय विचार्य निश्चितमुक्तं व्यासेन वेदाचार्येण
भगवता । विभागं चानयोः प्रदर्शयिष्यामः ॥


There is a detailed description of the Krishna Dvaipayana - Vyasa in the
MB. Shankara gives yet another quote from the MB and says it is of
Dvaipayana: BSB 2.3.29:

https://sanskritdocuments.org/mirrors/mahabharata/unic/mbh12_sa.html

तथा चोक्तं भगवता द्वैपायनेन — ‘ उपलभ्याप्सु चेद्गन्धं
केचिद्ब्रूयुरनैपुणाः । पृथिव्यामेव तं विद्यादपो वायुं च संश्रितम्’ इति ।

Thus Shankara is clear that Krishna Dvaipayana, Vyasa is the author of the
MB.


And he has said that 'Vyasa does not accept atom, etc. as jagatkaranam' in
the BSB.  Vyasa has said that in the sutras. In MB and other puranas, like
Padma, Kurma, etc. too the refutation of other schools not
Vedanta-friendly, is made. All these texts are of Veda Vyasa alone.


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