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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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