Dear BhakthAs:
With the earlier inputs from Sri Mani Vararadarjan, K.M.Narayanan
and the new input from Sri Anand Karalapakkam , I have nothing more
to add . I thank all of them for their valued inputs.
Sri Anand's comments relating to the contributiuons /conclusions
of Sri Utthamur Swamy's research are most revealing.
Thanks again , Sri Anand!
The authorship of the commentaries on
the TaitthirIya and MaanDUkya Upanishds
is still in doubt. It is not clear whether during
the Post-Swamy Desikan time , Koora NaarAyana
Jeeyar wrote the commentaries on the above
two upanishads.
Namo NarAyanA!
V.Sadagopan
>SrI:
>SrI Lakshminrusimha ParabramhaNE namaH
>SrI nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaH
>
> namO nArAyaNa!
>
> Dear SrI Sadagopan,
>
> The two KUra-nArAyaNa JIyars are different.
>
> The author of SudarSaNa-Satakam is a disciple
> of SrI KUratAzhwAn/SrI ParASara Bhattar.
>
> The author of ISAvAsyOpanishad BhAshyam belongs to the
> post-SwAmi Desika Period. But, this JIyar is not the
> author of few other Upanishad BhAshyams which also
> carries the author name as "KUra-nArAyaNa JIyar".
>
> SrI UtthamUr SwAmi has done some research analysis on this issue,
> in his edition on ISAvAsyopanishad with the commentaries of
> SwAmi DESikan and SrI KUra-NArAyaNa JIyar, dated 1948. SwAmi
> takes into account the Adayar Manuscript resources. After careful
> analysis and ruling out many possibilities, SwAmi concludes
> that it is the 22nd HH JIyar of SrI Ahobila Muth who authored the
> ISavAsyopanishad BhAshyam in hand. There is a small confusion as
> to whether it is 12th HH JIyar of SrI Ahobila Muth.
> SrI PuttUr SwAmi in his Tamil exposition on ISAvAsyopanishad
> (mainly spelling out the essentials esp from the bhAshyam of
> a thennAchArya, SrI PuriSai Ra~ngAchArya (*) ) cites SrI UtthamUr
> SwAmi's edition/analysis and says - It has been concluded
> there by SrI UtthamUr SwAmi that the author is 12th HH JIyar
> of SrI Ahobila Muth. aDiyEn will write more on this later
> and briefly stating the analysis of SrI UtthamUr SwAmi (Haven't
> read it completly until now ...Will gothrough it soon).
>
> (*): SrI PuriSai Ra~ngAchArya (SPR) was a well accomplished
> thenkalai scholar belonging to the later 19th Century and
> begining of 20th Century. SrI InjimEttu Azhagiyasi~ngar in his
> pUrvAshramam learnt many texts of NyAya SAstra under him.
> SPR wrote a bhAshyam to ISAvAsyopanishad which has its
> speciality in criticizing the view-points of advaita - The
> highlighting feature of this BhAshyam. But alongside,
> SwAmi DESikan's BhAshyam has also been criticized. Well,
> SrI "Abhinava DESika" UtthamUr SwAmi has written a highly
> scholarly rebuttal to SPR's bhAshyam to establish the
> soundness of SwAmi DESikan's bhAshyam. This work named
> "AchArya-BhAshya-TAtparyaH" involves lot of polemics drawing
> profuse usage of PUrva-MImAmsa {and also VyAkaraNa (Skt Grammar)
> wherever needed} to establish SrI VEdAnta DESika's
> interpretation to be perfect and thereby refuting all the
> criticisms levelled against it. It is filled with many hair
> splitting arguments. What struck aDiyEn the most was
> the detailed argument on "antarvyApti vichAra" in mantra 5 -
> It runs for "many...." pages. This original creation - a
> quite detailed bhAshyam- by the genius abhinava dESika was
> extremly admired by SrI InjimEttu Azhagiyasingar for its
> amazing insights.
>
> BTW, for one to have a hand on this commentary, he must make
> sure that he is very good in PUrva-MImAmsa, Uttara-MImAmsa and
> VyAkaraNa !! Some NyAya SAstra based parishkArAs are also used
> by SwAmi which begs the understanding of Navya-NyAya also !
> Basically, a Chatur-SAstra VidvAn can understand the flow of
> all the arguments without much of scratching the head.
>
> aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
> anantapadmanAbhan.
>
>
>
>
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