[Advaita-l] Trying to identify source of some verses

[V Subrahmanian]

Thanks Raghav ji for your response and the lead to the Parashara Upa
Puranam.  I have a searchable file of this text and on verification, found
at least 5 verses in our list matching with the text.  The rest are
elusive.  Maybe some other upa puranam or Suta samhita has these.

I think it would be very worthwhile looking at the pramana-s Swami
Vidyaranya cites in his works.  The Vivaranaprameya samgraha could be a
veritable source to many unknown, uncited passages.

regards
subbu

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:00 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Subbu ji
>
> Thank you for sharing this.
>
> I just googled and got the first verse quoted by you referenced by someone
> as from manusmRti - shrotavyaH shrutivAkyebhaH.
>
> The 9th verse quoted by you is there in the parAshara-upa-purANam (14.34)
> too.
>
> But I think you need all of them from one common source - possibly one of
> the other upapurANas?
>
> I noted also the following in passing.
>
> The vivaraNa-prameya-saMgraha of Sri Vidyaranya (naturally) follows the
> vivaraNa school of Sri Padmapada and asserts the primacy of shravaNam or
> verbal testimony as the primary (angI) for brahma-GYAnam and relegates
> mananam and nidhidhyaasanam to anga-s or limbs. And yet, the importance of
> nidhidhyaasanam as a specific "sitting-meditation" type of ekagratA
> practice for vedAnta GYAnam is acknowledged without dilution.
>
> Incidentally, there was a nice well-articulated reiteration of the
> svataH-prakAshatvaM of AtmA and discussion of the ideas of vRtti-vyApti and
> phala-vyApti as a detailed footnote in the Hindi translation which is quite
> well-written.
>
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
> On Thu, 8 Oct, 2020, 6:30 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > In this page of Vivaranaprameya sangraha (of Swami Vidyaranya) there are
> > some verses cited as from 'purana'.  Some of these verses are also cited
> by
> > Swami Vidyaranya in the Taittirya Upanishad commentary.  It would be nice
> > to know the source of these verses as they speak of shravana, etc.:
> >
> > https://sa.wikisource.org/s/1fd3
> >
> > ; एतच्छ्रुतितात्पर्यस्यैव पुराणेषु प्रतिपादितत्वात्। तथा हि --
> > "श्रोतव्यः श्रुतिवाक्येभ्यो मन्तव्यश्चोपपत्तिभिः।
> > ज्ञात्वा च सततं ध्येय एते दर्शनहेतवः॥ 1॥
> > तत्र तावन्मुनिश्रेष्ठाः! श्रवणं नाम केवलम्।
> > उपक्रमादिभिर्लिङ्गैः शक्तितात्पर्यनिर्णयः॥ 2॥
> > सर्ववेदान्तवाक्यनामाचार्यमुखतः प्रियात्।
> > वाक्यानुग्राहकन्यायशीलनं मननं भवेत्॥ 3॥
> > निदिध्यासनमैकाग्र्यं श्रवणो मननेऽपि च।
> > निदिध्यासनसंज्ञं च मननं च द्वयं बुधाः !॥ 4॥
> > फलोपकारकाङ्गं स्यात् तेनाऽसम्भावना तथा।
> > विपरीता न निर्मूलं प्रविनश्यति सत्तमाः!॥ 5॥
> > प्राधान्यं मननादस्मिन्निदिध्यासनतोऽपि च।
> > उत्पत्तावन्तरङ्गं हि ज्ञानस्य श्रवणं बुधाः!॥ 6॥
> > तटस्थमन्यव्यावृत्त्या मननं चिन्तनं तथा।
> > इतिकर्तव्यकोटिस्थाः शान्तिदान्त्यादयः क्रमात्॥ 7॥
> > ततः सर्वाङ्गनिष्ठस्य प्रत्यग्ब्रह्मैक्यगोचरा।
> > या वृत्तिर्मानसी शुद्धा जायते वेदवाक्यतः॥ 8॥
> > तस्यां या चिदभिव्यक्तिः स्वतःसिद्धा च शाङ्करी।
> > तदेव ब्रह्मविज्ञानं तदेवाऽज्ञाननाशनम्॥ 9॥
> > प्रत्यग्ब्रह्मैक्यरूपा या वृत्तिः पूर्णाऽभिजायते।
> > शब्दलक्षणसामग्र्या मानसी सुदृढा भृशम्॥ 10॥
> >
> > and a few more.
> >
> > The 9th verse above:   तस्यां या चिदभिव्यक्तिः स्वतःसिद्धा च शाङ्करी।
> > तदेव ब्रह्मविज्ञानं तदेवाऽज्ञाननाशनम्॥ 9॥    gives me an impression that
> > the set of verses is from the Suta Samhita. Could anyone pl. search in
> that
> > text (or any other) and identify the source?
> >
> > The whole book is available here with Hindi translation:
> >
> > https://archive.org/details/Vivarana.Prameya.Sangrah.by.Vidyaranya.Swami
> >
> > Thanks.
> > subbu
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