re: sajjanasambhava

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Dear Malolan Cadambi

 

sorry for answering so late.

There is an ongoing diskussion also within the VaikhAnasa fold whether or

not the text Sajjanasambhava (also Sajjanavaibhava) was written by Vedanta

Dezika or not.

 

The late Pandit Rompicarla Parthasarathi Bhattacarya was of the opinion that

this text was not written by him; Pandit Krishnamacharyulu from Narsapur

(Andhra Pradesh) who translated the work into Telugu is of the opinion that

VedAnta Dezika was the author.

 

I myself only have the Telugu translation, but manuscripts of the original

text in Sanskrit are said to be held by athe GOML in Madras.

 

The VaikAnasa scholar ZrInivAsa DIkSita (whose dates might be after 1369 and

before 1750?) quotes the text in his VaikhAnasamahimamanjarI as containing a

VaikhAnasotpattiprakAra, that is a portion of the origin of the VaikhAnasa

school. SudararAja from IllatUr, also a vaikhAnasa scholar who lived in the

late 19th and early 20th centuries states in his life-description of ZrInivAsa

DIkSita that he comments on "VedAnta Dezika's work Sajjanasambhava".

 

I would be grateful to learn more about this text an its background.

 

Best regards,

Ute

 

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"Ute Huesken" <ute.huesken

> I would be grateful to learn more about this text an its background.

>

> Best regards,

> Ute

 

Dear Dr Huesken,

 

My friend from Chennai informed me sometime back that Vedanta Desika, the

author of Sajjanasambhava (also Sajjanavaibhava) is different from Vedanta

Desika (Venkatanathan, or Swami Desikan). He quotes a book from the bhattar

of Srivilliputtur, which is a Vaikhanasa Divya Desam who had commented on

this issue.

 

There does not seem to be any evidence that Venkatanathan composed

Sajjanasambhava. This is not mentioned in any of his traditional

biographies, and even by the biography by Doddayacharya of Sholingur

(ChozhasimhApuram). It would be interesting to know what evidence Pandit

Krishnamacharyulu presents to support his point.

 

Meanwhile, I would like to bring to your attention an upcoming publication

on the Vaikhanasa Agamam.

 

"VaikhAnasa Vijayam : A short Sanskrit work on this Agama.

[srI SrIvatsA~nkAchArya SwAmi's bhUmika included]"

 

Please contact U Ve Anand Karalapakkam at Chennai for this book. It has been

re-printed recently. His email address is kgk

 

-Regards,

 

Malolan Cadambi,

Austin,TX

 

(Note from Moderator): In a book titled "SrI PAncarAtra rakshA of SrI vedAnta

deSika", published by The aDyAr Library, and edited by Pundit M. Duraiswami

Aiyengar (2nd ed., 1967), it is indicated that svAmi deSikan is the author of

sajjana vaibhava.