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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> The following was already indicated elsewhere by saying that Shankara uses
> the word sUtra in a different way. But just thought of elaborating it as I
> understand it.
>
> In gita 13.4 we have
> ऋषिभिर्बहुधा गीतं छन्दोभिर्विविधैः पृथक् ।
>
> ब्रह्मसूत्रपदैश्चैव हेतुमद्भिर्विनिश्चितैः ॥ ४ ॥
>

Raghav ji,

This is in tune with what Shankara has said in the Br.Up. context where the
term sutra, vyakhyana, etc. occur in the mantra. He gives examples from the
Veda itself for these terms.  It would be interesting to see if the nirukta
has anything to say about these terms, if  any.


regards
subbu

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