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Self Intro & a question about Bodhayanavritti

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srinivasa chary • December 26, 2002 


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 SriBhash

       Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan

      Srinivasadasa

        

     



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