अज भक्षित भाग of MahAbhAshyam

[Ramesh Kn]

It is said that one who does not confer the Vidya to other becomes a brahma rAkshasa.

A student of Patanjali became a brahma rAkshasa. To come out of this curse, he has to transfer the vidya, the mahA bhAshyam learnt from his Guru Patanjali to some good pupil.

He chose a strategic location the central part of india ie., between 5 gauda desa & 5 dravida desa so that probability of getting the person is very good.

The  brahmarakshasa sat on a peepal tree on the banks of river narmada and will ask the following questions to the passers by:

What is the nishthA pratyaya of  सिच् ? Answer सिक्तम् 

What is the nishthA pratyaya of  रच् ? Answer  रक्तम् 

What is the nishthA pratyaya of  भुज् ? Answer  भुक्तम् 

What is the nishthA pratyaya of  पच् ? Everybody will answer पक्तम् 

Then he will catch that brahmana- you are a good food for me today & eat him.

Once a brahmin named Chandra Sharma came that way. Brahma rAkshas asked the questions, he told the answer as पक्वम् .

BrahmarAkshas became happy and transferred the mahabhashyam with lot of strict conditions to him and became relieved of the sin.

It is said that unable to digest the pitiable state of his pupil, Patanjali himself came as Chandra Sharma. 

He took notes  from his guru Braham rakshas plucking the leaves of the peepal tree,using his blood as the ink. Some how some of the leaves were eaten away by  a goat. This portion is often referred as अज भक्षित भाग of mahAbhashyam.

This chandra sharma was from Gauda desa ( Present day bengal/Bihar) and later became the famous Gauda pAda the guru of Govinda bhagavat pada whose pupil was Adishankara bhagavat pada.

The story was told by HH.Chandrasekhara saraswati - mahaperiyavaa of Kanci mutt in one of his upanyasams.

My question is " Is the अज भक्षित भाग  still relevant? "

 In other words is it true that some portions of MahAbhAshyam  are missing  today....???

Namaskarams

[Venkata Sriram]

Namaste,

Paramacharya had a knack of narrating fascinating parables....and this is one such.  The Ramabhadra Dikshita wrote a poem called 'Patanjali Charitam' and this was recorded.  

I sometimes get intrigued whether these stories have any basis or just handed down like that without any historical evidences.  Gaudapada was brahma-raakshasa and Govindapada in his purvaasrama had 4 wives (one from each varNa) !!  

Thank God ...Sankara Bhagavatpada is spared 

rgs,

sriram

[K.N.RAMESH]

>>Gaudapada was brahma-raakshasa and Govindapada in his purvaasrama had 4 wives (one from each varNa) !!  

It seems it is gaudapada who had 4 wives, one from each varna - Vararuchi, vikramaditya, bhatti,bhartru hari...

More here in tamil language:

http://knramesh.blogspot.in/2017/08/story-of-patanjali-his-4-sons-periyavaa.html

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्" group.
To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bvparishat/HiN28bzrNLc/unsubscribe.
To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to bvparishat+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to bvpar...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Srinivasakrishnan ln]

Great description in the Tamil blog.

Srini

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bvparishat+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.