[Advaita-l] Advaitabodhadipika

[Ven Balakrishnan]

The text itself references sankaracharya and vidyaranya, as well as the yajnavalkya-maitreyi dialogue; which would be unusual for a Tamil Vedanta text. 

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> On 10 Apr 2021, at 08:55, KAMESWARARAO MULA via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> The link sent showed the book was from the year 1887,But Karapatri swami lived in varanasi int he begining of 19th century i.e19005-1980:
> It could be the tamil script, swamiji might have translated to sanksrit after that. or any other Tamil saint whose name matahced with varanasi karapatri swamiji.
> How ever I will try to get a hindi text of that soon.
> regardsKameswara Rao 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sat, 10 Apr, 2021, 12:07 am Ven Balakrishnan via Advaita-l, <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>> 
>> My understanding from the English translation, is that it was originally
>> written in Sanskrit by Sri Karapatra Swami and translated into Tamil by an
>> unknown person, from which it was then translated into English by one of
>> Ramana’s followers (Mungala Venkataramiah - the author of “Talks”).
>> 
>> From the foreword to the book:
>> 
>> “The last four chapters, Savikalpa Samadhi, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, Jivan
>> Mukti, and Videha Mukti nor being found in Tamil, Telugu or Sanskrit
>> Manuscripts could not be translated into English. Information on the
>> missing chapters is earnestly sought and will b e gratefully acknowledged
>> by the publisher.
>> Our grateful thanks are due to H. H. Smt. Shanta Devi Maharani of Baroda
>> and H. H. the Maharaja of Travancore for sending us the original Sanskrit
>> Manuscripts of this work from the State Libraries for Maharshi's
>> consultation and return.
>> This book is one of the few esteemed by Sri Maharshi and this translation
>> was thoroughly revised in His Presence. So we are encouraged to present
>> this small volume to the public with full confidence that the reader will
>> benefit by it.”
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 9 Apr 2021, at 06:29, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, V Subrahmanian wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I scanned through all the pages and found there is no original Sanskrit
>> text
>>>> in this book; it is completely a translation to Tamil.  At the end of
>> the
>>>> book a list of texts cited therein is given:
>>>> This includes the Veda, 'asango hyayam purushah', Vyasa Sutra, VasiShTha
>>>> (Yoga Vasishtha), Vivekachudamani, Smriti, Maitrayani shakha, Gita,
>>>> Pandhadashi, Purana, Ramayana and Sutasamhita.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thankyou to all those who replied to me.  The reason I asked is because
>> the widely available English translation published by Ramanashrama claims
>> to be based off a Sanskrit translation of the original Tamil work.  I
>> received a query from a person who was looking for this Sanskrit version
>> and was unable to find it.  I have also been unable to find it.  I suspect
>> there never was a Sanskrit version, the English is translated directly from
>> Tamil.
>>> 
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