[Advaita-l] Bhaagavata khandanam

[Gopal]

 Namaste, Subbuji

> Could the Bhagavata Tatparya Nirnaya be termed a 'commentary' on the
text?  Is BTN a work of verses composed by Madhva or is it a verse-by-verse
commentary like Sridhara Swamin has done?

I do not want to misspeak as I have not read the work in full; just
familiar with some slokas for their meanings and only when they were cited
in talks. But I am appending a page (page 37), vol 1, introduction of the 5
volume work by Late KT Pandurangi's work on this text.  Please see it
attached where he describes about this work. That appears to answer your
question.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RWZf51mvYYQ7n4avoJqGPsu4GApqt1Gp/view?usp=sharing

Any further details on that, I would be also interested to know:  Prov. V.
Pandurangi  could be of help in this regard and I believe he writes on this
email list also.

Similar to your note on Sridhara Swamin's invocation, there is  another
verse that "shivasya hrudayam vishnO: vishnOscha hrudayam shiva:"... this
sloka has more lines that echo the ekata of the two divinities.
Sincerely
..gopal


On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 12:54 AM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 10:32 AM Gopal via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>> Raghavji,
>>
>> Namaste. Thanks for your reply.
>>
>>
>>
>> In another mail, you had made a remark about srithara swamin and his
>> timing. It is believed he lived after Sri madhwachwrya of dwaita
>> sampradaya
>> who peaked between 1250s to 1310s. M had written bhagavata tatparya
>> nirnaya. So SS was not the earliest commentator, as you were asking about.
>> This is just a food for ur thought.
>
>
> Could the Bhagavata Tatparya Nirnaya be termed a 'commentary' on the
> text?  Is BTN a work of verses composed by Madhva or is it a verse-by-verse
> commentary like Sridhara Swamin has done?
>
> I just wanted to add, in continuation of the observation of Swami
> Tapasyananda,  this invocation of Sridhara Swamin to his commentary:
>
> माधवोमाधवावीशौ सर्वसिद्धिविधायिनौ। वन्दे परस्परात्मानौ परस्परनुतिप्रियौ॥
>
> I bow to Mādhava and Umādhava (Shiva) who are both 'Isha-s' Supreme Lords. They
> are capable of bestowing all accomplishments (to their devotees). They
> are both the selves of each other and both love to engage in the stuti of
> each other.
> Vamshidhara, the expounder of Sridhara swamin's commentary, explains this
> verse with copious citations from scriptural texts. This is available in
> the link below:
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/16pK261rVtIUgEutYFNUQ_xcVY-aAn3eK/view?usp=sharing
>
> regards
> subbu
>
> A relevant question to ask would be why
>> acharya madhwa choose to do this work at par with his Mahabharata and
>> ramayana tatparya nirnaya works unless it was already a primary text in
>> his
>> times. He was born 100 years after the siddhi of Sri Ramanuja. I have not
>> read this work so am not sure which version of bhagavata text he used.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> ..gopal
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