[Advaita-l] SIDDHANTA KAUMADI

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Namaste,

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:58 AM KAMESWARARAO MULA via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> I may not be correct as you said but swamiji quoted this as a reference in
> his book on 'lekha sangraha'. As you said he menioned Panini sutra no. 5468
> in the chapter ganesha vigyana to know how ganesha was derived and rebirth
> arises.
>
Swamiji may have possible quoted the Panini sutra 5.4.68 in some context of
some word while mentioning some words related to Ganesha, but w.r.t. the
word Ganesha itself, I am unable to see. Even so, in most pAThas 5.4.68 is
समासान्ताः which is an अधिकारसूत्र so maybe he meant some sutra in that
section is applicable to derive the word. The word Ganesha is a simple
षष्ठीतत्पुरुष that doesn't take any समासान्त प्रत्यय from the 5.4.68
अधिकार। In any case, I would be interested if you can provide further
references as to the wordings used preferable with the sutra itself.
Further, if the mention of 5.4.68 was w.r.t. to Ganeshavijnana, that seems
like some chapter in some tantra work, definitely not Paninian.



> Before that he wrote a chapter on 'Re-birth' in which he mentioned various
> things and quoted siddhanta kaumadi has its reference.

As Jaldharji said, it is utmost unlikely that the work is Siddhantakaumudi.
There may be some translator and other language commentator such as Pt.
Bhimasena (Bhaimi) who may have used some additional examples under some
sutra, which also would be far-fetched as far as I have seen, even so as a
footnote!


> However, I am keen to study 'siddhanta kaumadi' in detail, pls suggest any
> books for its interpretation.
>
Based on your references to Siddhantakaumudi (SK) here, I doubt that you
would be interested to study the same. Pls step through a few sutras
clicking next (>) on top-right *not* top-left for SK sequence starting
http://ashtadhyayi.com/sutraani/sk1 and see if it really interests you.
Panini sutras in whichever order you study are padashAstra in that they
help you derive साधु words. If your expectation is the same, then you may
want to study Laghusiddhantakaumudi (LSK) before SK. If interested, do let
me know and I shall link you to some LSK classes.

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat