[Advaita-l] Is Badarayana same as Vyasa?

[D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ]

The import is Ramanuja invented Baudhayana to give credence to his
siddhanta. I am making vyangyam vachyam.

regards,
Sarma.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 6:38 AM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 2018-07-25 4:45 GMT+05:30 D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ <dvnsarma at gmail.com>:
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>> What about other purvacharyas and other sampradayas like
>> Baudhayana(Visistadvaita)? Are they equally valid?
>> Obviously not for advaitins. That is why one falls back on
>> padavakyapramanatah.
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> Regarding Baudhayana, there is no certainty of his identity.  Vedanta
> Desika is said to have identified him with Upavarsha, an Acharya considered
> by Shankara as a Vedantin, Advaitin, 'Bhagavan Upavarshah'.  Also, the text
> said to be of Baudhayana, a vritti on Brahmasutras, was not available to
> anyone except Ramanuja.  My take is: if Shankara had seen that text, he
> would have interpreted it in accordance to Vedanta, advaita.
>
> regards
> subbu
>
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>> regards,
>> Sarma.
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