[Advaita-l] Doubt on how Bhagavad padha 'identified' himself

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste Subbuji,
I don't have access to Anandagiri's commentary on the naiShkarmya siddhi.
To be honest, I was not even aware he had written one, until you had said
so.

I don't have the reference for this handy , but I remember reading in
daivittin kural, the kAnchi paramAchArya mentioning that ancient India was
broadly divided into gauDa deSa and drAviDa deSa, each of which was divided
into five regions - the extremity of each of gauDa and drAviDa deSa was
itself called gauDa and drAviDa.

drAviDa in particular was composed of Andhra, karNATaka, gUrjara,
saurAShTra and drAviDa. From here we can discern that drAviDa comprised of
Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

The rAjatarangiNi also classifies panchadrAviDa brAhmaNa-s as belonging to
these regions. Periyava's source may have been this work.

Regards,
Venkatraghavan

On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 07:18 V Subrahmanian, <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:32 PM Venkatraghavan S <agnimile at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Namaste,
>> Not sure if this is relevant, but there is a reference to shankarAchArya
>> as draviDa by sureshvarAchArya in the naiShkarmya siddhi 4.44.
>> एवं गौडैर्द्राविडैर्नः पूज्यैरयमर्थः प्रभाषितः ।
>> अज्ञानमात्रोपाधिः सन्नहमादिदृगीश्वर:॥
>>
>
> Thanks Venkat ji, for this reference which I do not remember to have seen.
> That gives us an extra pramana to hold Shankara is from the Draavida
> desha.  Does Anandagiri say anything on this there? Was Kerala a part of
> Draavida desha?  Sureshwaracharya has also referred to Bhagavatpada as
> 'Atrigotra'.
>
> regards
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Venkatraghavan
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 05:36 V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 9:33 AM Murali S via Advaita-l <
>>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Learned members,
>>> > I have a low level doubt.Has Shankara Bhagavadpadha 'identified'
>>> himself as
>>> > someone from dravida country in his bhashyaas or in narratives found in
>>> > shankara vijayam texts.
>>> >
>>>
>>> I have not seen any such identification by Shankara either in the
>>> Bhashyam-s or in the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya. I am not familiar with
>>> the
>>> other hagiographical texts.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> subbu
>>>
>>>
>>> > Thanks
>>> > S.Murali
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