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Mani,

 

Reading through Sri.KrishnamAchAri's posts again on

the archives on aagamA I came across this passage

which also seems to suggest that it is not a wholly

settled matter that the aagamA-s owe their origin to,

or perhaps were part even of the Vedas:

 

Quote:

"...In the historical evolution of the Agama-s, there

have been several =views over time - a) Agama-s are

derived from the veda, b) Agama and =veda are both

derived from a common root or mUla-veda, c) Agama-s

are =inferior to, and less authoritative than the

veda, and d) Agama-s are =superior to veda. It was

probably these kinds of differences that led =to Sri

YamunacArya's work titled Agama-prAmANya and Sri

VedAnta =desika's work titled SrI pAncarAtra rakshA."

Unquote

 

Perhaps you or any other scholar-member on the list

can clarify the above statement.

 

Thanks,

dAsan,

Sampathkumaran

 

 

 

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