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

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

One query for you to understand what you are saying

1. You agree that sutrakAra's name is Badarayana

2. bhArata-kAra's name is vyAsa

3. You want to know if it can be positively shown that the composer of the
MB and BS are identified as one by Shankara , Ramanuja, Bhaskar etc?



On Wed 18 Jul, 2018, 12:14 PM Kalyan via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  //Now it is clear with no ambiguity that Shankara specifies Badrayana as
> the Brahma sutra author://
>
> No one is contesting that sutra author is Badarayana. I could not see any
> evidence in Shankara bhashya that this person is same as Vyasa.
>
>
>     On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 12:08:22 AM GMT+5:30, V Subrahmanian <
> v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Now it is clear with no ambiguity that Shankara specifies Badrayana as
> the Brahma sutra author:
> The very last of the BS is introduced by Shankara as - Bhagavan Badarayana
> Acharya is giving (a) reply in this sutra:
>
> सातिशयत्वादन्तवत्त्वम् ऐश्वर्यस्य स्यात् ; ततश्च एषामावृत्तिः प्रसज्येत —
> इत्यतः उत्तरं भगवान्बादरायण आचार्यः पठति —………
>
> अनावृत्तिः शब्दादनावृत्तिः शब्दात् ॥ २२ ॥
>
> I had seen the line several times in the Advaita Sharada search but not in
> conjunction with the sutra and just passed over. It was only due to an
> external intervention that my attention was drawn to this line again, with
> the sutra.  In the close to a dozen places where 'Badarayana' occurs in the
> BS, Shankara invariably adds 'Bhagavan', 'Acharya' to the name. In all the
> cases the sutra itself has that name and while commenting Shankara gives
> that honorific.  But in this last sutra, the sutra does not have that name
> and yet Shankara says '...Badarayana..reads (the sutra).
> Thus, we have an indirect reference to Vyasa as the sutrakara and a direct
> reference to Badarayana as the sutrakara. Padmapada salutes 'Badarayana' as
> Vedanta acharya.  Bhaskara has also said Badarayana as sutrakara.
> Anandagiri 13CE commenting on the above bhashya says:  Shankara is saluting
> the sutrakara.  Ratnaprabha too says it is a puja of the sutrakara.
> Om Tat Sat
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  I am not speculating anything. I am trying to see if there is any
> evidence supporting Vyasa-Badarayana identity. Your definition of Acharyas
> does not include Shankara, Bhaskara, Ramanuja.
>
>     On Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 8:49:48 PM GMT+5:30, V Subrahmanian <
> v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Kalyan <kalyan_kg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  //Unless there was a need felt for it.  For them there was no confusion
> about this. //
>
> This is pure speculation.
>
> Actually a Vyasa-Badrayana divide as author of the BS  is what amounts to
> speculation. We have possibly the earliest Acharyas/authors using these
> names to denote the author of the BS.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Archives: http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/
> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.culture.religion.advaita
>
> To unsubscribe or change your options:
> https://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/advaita-l
>
> For assistance, contact:
> listmaster at advaita-vedanta.org
>