Self Intro & a question about Bodhayanavritti

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Dear moderator and Learned BhagavatottamAs of this list,

 

Kindly accept my pranAmam.

 

An apology is due from me to the moderator for not obliging his

instruction to post an intro to the list. I joined this group in Sept., and

since then immensely enjoing the postings of learned members. Please excuse me

for it. My name is Srinivasachary and am placed in Hyderabad, working for

Defence R&D Organisation in the field of computer science.

 

Recently, I happened to come across a Telugu translation of BrahmasUtra

BhAshyA of Sri SankarabhagavatpAdA with commentary by Mahamahopadhyaya Dr.

Pullela Sriramachandrudu, a learned scholar in Sanskrit literature and Advaita

philosophy, with number of works to his credit. In the introducary portion of

the book Dr.Ramachandrudu discussed about BodhAyanavritti. He is of the opinion

that Sri Ramanujacharya did not have access to Bodhayana's work in it's original

form. To support this argument, he quotes from Ramanuja's commentary on first

sUtra: "....pUrvAcharya Sankshiptuhu...TanmatAnusarena...". His logic is that he

would have written "tadanusArena" instead of "tanmatanusarena" if he was

actually following vritti grantha. Though I am aware of our traditional account

of how Bhagavadramanuja acquired Bodhayanavritti from Kashmir, and Sri

KUrattalwan's wizardy in memorising the text, I request learned members of the

list to throw some light on this point. Hopefully some internal evidence from

SriBhashya or Poorvacharya granthas.

 

Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

 

Srinivasadasa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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