[Advaita-l] Subject: Lalitha Sahsranama - Saundaryalahari

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear Bhaskarji,

You wrote:
*Yes, some of the prakaraNas' authorship still in question in scholarly
circle.*
This is not a compliment to the scholars, who are confused on such issues.
History is part and parcel of Vedic learning and that is why Itihasa is an
essential anga of the fifth veda. One must learn the relevant itihasa on
top priority.

It is possible that we have many scholars who are not sure as to how many
bhshyas were written by Adi Shankara. Hope they will work hard to remove
their confusions. The "Prasthanatraya" term is being used (and sometimes
being misused)  only in the last five centuries or so.

Jai Shri Krishna
Sunil KB

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:34 PM Bhaskar YR <bhaskar.yr at hitachienergy.com>
wrote:

> praNAms Sri Sunil Bhattacharjya prabhuji
> Hare Krishna
>
> Yes, some of the prakaraNas' authorship still in question in scholarly
> circle.  But traditionalists who firmly believe that anything and
> everything that is there in the name of bhAshyakAra as the genuine works of
> bhAshyakAra himself would argue like  this:  since bhagavatpaada is
> 'jagadguru'  his style and presentation is not that of stereotype, keeping
> various 'adhikaari-s/ sAdhakas in mind he might have written various works
> on various subjects without restricting himself to particular subject.  So
> various works including veda, vedaanta, yoga, taNtra, stotra etc. are all
> from the pen of prasthAnatraya bhAshyakAra only if at all it is tagged to
> him.  However, these issues are still open for debate in academic circle
> and within the traditional circle as well.  For example, late Prof. SKR,
> who was headed Kalpataru saMshOdhana Kendra herein Bengaluru outrightly
> rejected soundaryalahari's authorship by bhAshyakAra citing the reason that
> it is purely a taNtra based work!!
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
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> Dear friends,
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong, I have the impression that most of the
> Advaitin teachers today imagine that Adi Shankara had written the book
> "Saundaryalahari", but they had not been able to say as to how they arrived
> at that conclusion.
>
> In fact,to my understanding, the first portion consisting of 41 verses of
> that book is called "Anandalahari", was composed by a brahmin king. The
> second portion of that book, consisting of 59 verses of that book, is
> called  "Saundaryalahari", and that was composed  by the great Navavatara,
> Shri Abhinava Shankaracharya, who was born in the 8th century AD.
>
> I am sure, Adi Shankaracharya, a great lover of truth, is surely most
> unhappy with the  people trying to give false credit to him (i.e., to Adi
> Shankara) for the book "Anandalahari".
>
> Regards,
> Sunil K. Bhattacharjya
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