Adi Shankara & Srimad Bhagavatham and other Purana

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

The bhAgavata purANa is considered by most historians to be a late

text, probably post-Sankara. Much of the lore in the bhAgavata is much

older, but the text itself was probably compiled only around the 10th

century or so.

 

The lore of rAdhA, which receives only passing mention in the

bhAgavata, became popular only with jayadeva's gIta-govinda in the

12th century.

 

There are other purANa-s that are much older. The viShNu purANa is one

of the oldest and Sankara does quote it in his works.

 

Ramesh

 

On 03/03/2008, R.S.MANI <r_s_mani wrote:

Namaste, learned members,

> One of my friends has asked the following question:

> " Adi Sankara lived in 8 AD as per the historic documents available(though

this is disputed by many). Why he has not mentioned anything about Srimad

Bagavatham in any of his texts or narrations.

[Guest guest]

I do not think Bhagavat Ramanuja quoted Bhagavatam either but I may be worng.

The justification was that he used only the pramANas that were accepted by other

daashaNikas, particularly Shankara.

 

In Bhagavatam - kaplopadesham is there that has advaita teaching (Swami

Tejomayananda of Chinmaya Mission has commentary on it)

and in the Uddhava Gita particularly the last but one chapter - summary chapter

23 - is pure advaita teaching by Krishna. Shankara would not have missed that if

it had been available.

 

We have yoga vaashiShTa and AShTavakra Gita - and AvadhUta Gita that are

essentially Advaitic texts - They might have come after Shankara.

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda

 

 

 

 

 

Ramesh Krishnamurthy <rkmurthy

 

 

There are other purANa-s that are much older. The viShNu purANa is one

of the oldest and Sankara does quote it in his works.

 

 

 

 

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