[Advaita-l] Looking for a Smriti reference

[V Subrahmanian]

This is the URL for the Kurmapurana where the verse is found:
https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_giitaa/vyAsagItAkUrmapurANa.html?lang=sa

regards

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 4:18 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 3:58 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
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>> In the Kenopanishad vaakya bhashyam 4.4, Shankara cites a Smriti:
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>> अत इन्द्रस्य बोधहेतुत्वाद्विद्यैवोमा । ‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’ इति स्मृतिः ।
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>> Any help in tracing the source of the cited Smriti:
>> ‘विद्यासहायवानीश्वरः’ is welcome.
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> I chanced to see a verse in the Kurmapuranam Part 2, Chapter 31
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> विद्यासहायो भगवान् यस्यासौ मण्डलान्तरम् ।  हिरण्यगर्भपुत्रोऽसावीश्वरो दृश्यते परः ॥३१.४१॥
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> This comes very close to the context which is about Shiva and Uma.
> Shankara has quite often cited a shruti/smriti passage not verbatim but
> condensing the meaning. This latter is called 'arthataH anuvaadah' as
> opposed to the former 'shabdataH anuvaadaH'.  The words 'vidyasahaaya'
> 'bhagavaan' and 'Ishvara' in the Kurma Purana verse seems matching the
> words of Shankara: vidyasahaaya-vaan-IshwaraH'.
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> regards
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>> Thanks
>> subbu
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