[Advaita-l] Fwd: The historicity of the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya

[V Subrahmanian]

Madhvas firmly hold that NP composed the MM and the Madhva Vijaya during
the lifetime of Madhva. The one who wrote the Raghavendra Vijaya is another
person, said to be a nephew of Raghavendra Tirtha. The names are same but
the persons are different.

regards
subbu

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:42 AM Krishnaprakasha Bolumbu <
kpbolumbu01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently I stumbled upon a lecture by one dvaitin from Uttaradi matha
>>> wherein he mentioned that Madhwa Vijaya was written by Narayana Pandita and
>>> Raghavendra Vijaya was also written by another person by the same name.
>>> Also, there are many similar incidents in the lives of Madhwa and
>>> Raghavendra Tirtha. Around the same time I got this from you in advaita
>>> mailing list:
>>
>>
>>> "My interest in this is getting condensed because of an observation of
>>> mine in the 'Mani Manjari', a work admitted by Madhvas as of one Narayana
>>> Pandita who is a contemporary of Madhva. This work has in it a dialogue
>>> that is famous in the Madhaviya Shankara Vijaya, as between Mandana Misra
>>> and Shankara.  The lines 'कुतो मुण्डी?',  'आगलान्मुण्डी', etc. is found in
>>> the Mani Manjari, almost as it is in the Shankara Vijaya.  It is well known
>>> that the author of the Vijaya is later to the time of Madhva by at least
>>> one century.  Hence my guess that the Brihat Shankara Vijaya must have
>>> existed much before even Madhva and that Narayana Pandita must have taken
>>> parts from it to concoct his story of Shankara.  A further research in this
>>> is worth, I think."
>>
>>
>>> As you have pointed out  the words are not only strikingly similar, same
>>> words have been used in a different metre and context though. The following
>>> verses are from ManiManjari chapter 7.
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>>
>>> 7.10
>>
>> Kuto munda iti praha agalatmunda ityamum
>>
>> Mandanastvaha panthanam prcchamityatha so'abravit
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>>
>>> 7.11
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>> Kimaha pantha iti te matha randeti Mandanah
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>> Ahatam Bhiksukah satyamada pantha it eechalam
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>>
>>> Madhaviya Shankara Vijayam reads:
>>
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>>> 8.16
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>> कुतॊ मुण्ड्याजलान्मुण्डी पृच्छ्यतॆ मया ।
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>> किमाह पन्थास्त्वन्माता मुण्डॆत्याह तथैव हि ॥
>>
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>>> 8.17
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>> पन्थानं त्वमपृच्छस्त्वां पन्थाः प्रत्याह मण्डन ।
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>> त्वन्मातॆत्यत्र शब्दॊऽयं न मां ब्रूयादपृच्छकम् ॥
>>
>>
>>> Back to the topic, can Narayana Pandita who wrote the Raghavendra Vijaya
>>> be the same person as the one who wrote Madhwa Vijaya as well? One thing to
>>> be noted is that Narayana Pandita being a direct disciple of Madhwa, palm
>>> leaf  copies of sarvamoola granthas are not available at his source. They
>>> are available only at sources of Hrishikesha Tirtha and Jayatirtha. If this
>>> is true, then Narayana Pandita doesn't have to refer to Pracheena Shankara
>>> Vijayam as the source, as Raghavendra undertook deeksha in 1621 CE and
>>> Madhaviya Shankara Vijayam was already available by then.
>>
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