[Advaita-l] अनिर्वचनीया ख्याति anirvacaniiyaa khyaati post-Shankara origin?

[Venkatraghavan S]

Namaste,

In the ArambhaNAdhikaraNam, BhagavatpAda in comparing the world to a mirage
water talks of its nature, says:
तस्माद्यथा घटकरकाद्याकाशानां महाकाशादनन्यत्वम् , यथा च
मृगतृष्णिकोदकादीनामूषरादिभ्योऽनन्यत्वम् , *दृष्टनष्टस्वरूपत्वात्
स्वरूपेणानुपाख्यत्वात्* ; एवमस्य भोग्यभोक्त्रादिप्रपञ्चजातस्य
ब्रह्मव्यतिरेकेणाभाव इति द्रष्टव्यम् ॥
The phrase दृष्टनष्टस्वरूपत्वात् स्वरूपेणानुपाख्यत्वात् is the equivalent
to anirvachanIyatva.

Elsewhere, in this adhikaraNam and other places he also uses the phrase
तत्त्वान्यत्वाभ्यामनिर्वचनीय:

Regards
Venkatraghavan

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, 04:52 Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> There is a Sloka I forget. It says for a dull minded person the world is
> real - Sat and for a Jnani it is Asat. For a inquiring person it is
> Anirvachaniya.
>
> Adi Sankara has explained Adhyasa and from this Adhyasa the Anirvachaniya
> Khyati is deduced logically.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:52 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste
> > In Advaita vedanta, the model to explain erroneous perceptions (such as
> > seeing a snake instead of the actual rope) is that  of अनिर्वचनीया
> > ख्यातिवाद (anirvacaniiyaa khyaati-vaada). This is used to explain that
> > erroneous perceptions are neither categorically real nor categorically
> > unreal.
> >
> > "If its real, then it would never get negated/sublated; if it is unreal
> > then it would never be experienced at all.(सच्चेत् न बाध्येत ; असत् चेत्
> न
> > प्रतीयेत)". Therefore the erroneous perception is labelled anirvacaniiyaa
> > khyaati. This is the idea.
> >
> > Is this idea of anirvacaniiyaa khyaati presented in Shankara Bhashya? Or
> > was it of later origin? Also, do some advaitins hold that this
> > anirvacaniiyaa khyaati-vaada was of later post-Shankara origin?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for any light on this matter.
> >
> > Om
> >
> > Raghav
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