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

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kalyan via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> //Hopefully no evidence was seen that the two are different either.//
>
> I am not sure how much you are following this thread.
> If Badarayana is refuting sankhya and pancaratra in BS and Vyasa is
> accepting the two in MB, both have to be different.
>

Regarding pancharatra there can be some mix-up. But regarding sankhya your
understanding is not as per the Vedanta.  As I have said before, Sankhya
accepted in the MB is purely Vedanta.  Here is the link to the MB chapter
where Krishna Dvaipayana dialogue is found that covers sankhya/yoga:


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

A sample of verses there:


   क्षेत्राणि हि शरीराणि बीजानि च शुभाशुभे | तानि वेत्ति स योगात्मा ततः
   क्षेत्रज्ञ उच्यते ||६|| नागतिर्न गतिस्तस्य ज्ञेया भूतेन केनचित् | साङ्ख्येन
   विधिना चैव योगेन च यथाक्रमम् ||७||


This is purely in tune with the BG 13th chapter and the 2nd and other
chapters of the BG and the Upanishads.

The sankhya refuted in the BS is a doctrine that holds pradhana to be the
jagatkaaranam and they don't talk about Brahman at all.

To my knowledge, even the Ramanuja Bhashya recognizes that adhikarana in
the BS on Pancharatra as genuine but considers some sutras there as
purvapaksha and some others as siddhanta.  Shankara takes that entire
adhikarana as a refutation of pancharatra. So does Bhaskara. As I
understand, for Madhva that adhikarana is not about pancharatra at all.

https://srimadhvyasa.wordpress.com/brahmasutra-bhashya-of-srimad-anandatheertha-searchable-unicode-sanskrit/
ॐ उत्पत्यसम्भवात् ॐ ॥ 42-215 ॥
न हि पुरुषाननुगृहीतस्त्रीभ्य उत्पत्तिर्दृश्यते ॥ 42 ॥
ॐ न च कर्तुः करणम् ॐ ॥ 43-216 ॥
यदि पुरुषोऽङ्गीक्रियेत तस्यापि करणाभावादनुपपत्तिः ॥ 43 ॥
ॐ विज्ञानादिभावे वा तदप्रतिषेधः ॐ ॥ 44-217 ॥
यदि विज्ञानादिकरणं तस्याङ्गीक्रियते तदा तत एव
सृष्ट्याद्युपपत्तेरीश्वरवादान्तर्भावः ॥ 44 ॥
ॐ विप्रतिषेधाच्च ॐ ॥ 45-218 ॥
सकलश्रुत्यादिविरुद्धत्वाच्चासमञ्जसम् ॥ 45 ॥
॥ इति उत्पत्त्य(शक्त्य)धिकरणम् ॥ 12 ॥

While such is the case, the immediately previous adhikaranam on Pashupata
mata, Madhva takes it like all other bhashya kaaras.

vs


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