[Advaita-l] Advaitabodhadipika

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

On Tamil Vedanta traditions we have independent texts aligned totally with
Adi Shankara dated to the fifteenth century.

https://www.davidgodman.org/tattuvaraya-and-sorupananda/

On Sat, 10 Apr, 2021, 3:31 pm Ven Balakrishnan via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> The text itself references sankaracharya and vidyaranya, as well as the
> yajnavalkya-maitreyi dialogue; which would be unusual for a Tamil Vedanta
> text.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > 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.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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