On Bhoja.....

[V Subrahmanian]

Namaste

In the 'tAtparyadIpikA' to the 'sUtasamhitA' (of the skandapurANam) Swami VidyaraNya cites, at the beginning of the 5th chapter titled 'shaktipUjAvidhAnam', a verse from Bhoja:

शक्तो यया स शंभुर्भुक्तौ मुक्तौ च पशुगणस्यास्य ।
तमेनां चिद्रूपामाद्यां सर्वात्मनाऽस्मि नतः ॥ 

From which work of Bhoja is this verse?  Are there citations from Bhoja found in works prior to Swami VidyAraNya (14th century)?

Scholars are requested to kindly respond.

Regards
subrahmanian.v

[Dr. T. Ganesan]

This verse occurs as the third one in the Tattvaprakasa of Bhoja which
is the ancient and well known Saiva siddhanta PrakaraNa text on the
doctrines of the Saivasiddhanta system.


The second half of the verse reads:

taamekaam aadyaam ........

It has 2 commentaries: one by Srikumara and another by Aghorasivacharya.

Ganesan

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[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Dr. T. Ganesan <gan...@ifpindia.org> wrote:

This verse occurs as the third one in the Tattvaprakasa of Bhoja which is the ancient and well known Saiva siddhanta PrakaraNa text on the doctrines of the Saivasiddhanta system.

Thanks for the reference.

The second half of the verse reads:

taamekaam aadyaam ........

 It has 2 commentaries: one by Srikumara and another by Aghorasivacharya.

I presume these commentaries are several centuries old , pre-Vidyaranya.

regards
subrahmanian.v 

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[Dr. T. Ganesan]

Yes. Both of them are pre-Sayana Madhava.
In his Sarvadarsanasamgraha, Sayana-Madhava cites a few verses from the Tattvaprakasa while explaining the Saivasiddhanta system.

Ganesan

[Dr. T. Ganesan]

The commentary called Taatparyadiipikaa was by one Sriikumaara who was  well versed in both Veda-s as well as in the Saivagama-s. He considers both the Veda-s and the Saivagama-s as equal authority.  He writes from the Sivaadvaita point of view.
The other one called Vritti is by Aghorasivaacaarya, the very well-known Saiva Acaarya of the 12th century who lived in Chidambaram but whose forefathers came from RaaDha desa, the Norh Bengal, propelled by a strong devotion to Nataraja at Chidambaram, and settled in the Chola desa. Aghorasivaacaarya interprets from Dvaita point of view which was the main basis for the earlier Saivasiddhanta aacaarya-s of Kashmir such as Sadyojyoti, Ramakantha, etc.

Ganesan


On 23-05-2013 22:41, V Subrahmanian wrote:

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Dr. T. Ganesan <gan...@ifpindia.org> wrote:

This verse occurs as the third one in the Tattvaprakasa of Bhoja which is the ancient and well known Saiva siddhanta PrakaraNa text on the doctrines of the Saivasiddhanta system.

Thanks for the reference.

The second half of the verse reads:

taamekaam aadyaam ........

 It has 2 commentaries: one by Srikumara and another by Aghorasivacharya.

I presume these commentaries are several centuries old , pre-Vidyaranya.

regards
subrahmanian.v 

Ganesan

[sunil bhattacharjya]

It seems there is a commentary by Aghora Sivacharya on Tattva prakasha and that it has been translated into English by Dr. Barnett. Has any scholar any information on the availbility of that commentary.

Sunil KB

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[Dr. T. Ganesan]

Yes.
 As far as I know there is no English translation of the Aghorasivaacaary's commentary called 'Vritti' on the Tattvaprakasa.
But there is a French translation of it along with variant readings (of course, all in Roman characters) done by Mr. Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat which has been published in one of the volumes of the Bulletin d'Ecole Française d'Extreme Orient, Paris.

The Tattvaprakaasa and the commentary of Aghorasivaacaarya was first published from Devakottai in Tamilnadu some 90 years back, along with other Saivasiddhanta PrakaraNa texts (whose authors Sadyojyoti and Ramakantha, lived in Kashmir between the 6-9th centuries) with the commentary of Aghorasivaacaarya on many of them, grouped together into eight and hence well known as AshTaprakaraNam.

This edition of the AshTaprakaraNam has been reprinted under the editorship of the late lamented Sri Vrajavallabha Dvivedi, the great scholar of Agama-Tantra-s of Varanasi with  a detailed scholarly introduction in Sanskrit  and was published a few years back from Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi in their series. Fortunately copies are available even now.

The section Saivadarsana of the SarvadarsanasaMgraha has been critically studied bringing out, among other things, the source texts of SayaNa-Madhava for his account of Saivasiddhanta, by the well known Saiva Agama scholar Helene- Brunner Lachaux as a research article in French under the titile Un chapitre du Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha : le Śaivadarśana which appeared in Tantric and Taoist studies : in honour of R. A. Stein edited by Michel Strickmann, some years ago.

The section dealing with the Pasupata Darsana of the SarvadarsanasaMgraha has been very well researched and studied by the world famous Pasupata scholar, Minoru Hara many years back.

Ganesan

>From which work of Bhoja is this verse?  Are there citations from Bhoja found in works prior to Swami VidyAraNya (14th century)?\