[Advaita-l] SIDDHANTA KAUMADI

[Praveen R. Bhat]

On the webpage of each sutra, look up the सिद्धान्तकौमुदी vRtti which is
the first heading marked in dark-blue.

Typos regretted: possible = possibly; preferable = preferably.

Kind rgds,
--Praveen R. Bhat
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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:53 PM Praveen R. Bhat <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>