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Sankaran Kartik Jayanarayanan • March 16, 2002 


I chanced to read a posting by Mani Varadarajan in the ancient USENET
newsgroup alt.hindu, and was wondering if Mani's challenge still holds:

http://www.hindunet.org/alt_hindu/1994/msg00757.html

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Subject: Re: superstitions 
From: Mani Varadarajan  
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 12:11:36 -0700 
Newsgroups: alt.hindu 

[..]

Ramanuja, the other major expositor of the Sutras, certainly 
cannot be accused of "filtering" the text through the Vaishnava 
tantras.  The sole foundational texts for his understanding of the
Sutras are the Upanishads, and secondarily the Gita and Vishnu
Purana (texts used by Sankara himself). If you can show me where 
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in his Sri Bhashya Ramanuja departs from these exegetical principles, 
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I will wear the ashes of an Advaitin forthwith!
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I'm not sure if the "Sri Bhashya" refers to Ramanuja's Brahma Sutra
Bhashya, but if such is the case, then the translation of Ramanuja's BSB
that I have with me does indeed point out several instances where Ramanuja
quotes from Puranas other than the Vishnu Purana. 

-Jayanarayanan



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