Identity of Govindabhagavatpāda, author of Rasahṛdayatantra

[Madhav Deshpande]

Dear Colleagues,

     This morning I came across on DLI a 1927 publication by Motilal Banarsidass of a work titled Rasahṛdayatantra by an author named Govindabhagavatpāda.  Here is the DLI source: http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/369609

     The editor of the work claims that this author is the same as the teacher of Shankaracharya.  I am not aware of any surviving works of Govinda, the teacher of Shankaracharya.  So this claim in the introduction to Rasahṛdayatantra came across as a surprise to me.  

      I am wondering if any members of the BVP have looked at this work, or have heard of any other works of Govinda, the teacher of Shankaracharya.  Any light on this issue is welcome.

Madhav Deshpande

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

Yoga Taravali, Advaita Anubhuti and Brhma Amrita Varshini are said to be written by Govinda the teacher of Shankaracharya according to the book Age Of Sankara Narayana Sastry T.S. I don't know if any of the works are printed or available as manuscripts.

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

[sadasivamurty rani]

Yogataravali is available in print but in the name of Sri Adi Sankaracharya. 

 

Prof. Rani Sadasiva Murty

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[Ajit Gargeshwari]

It is claimed that Govinda Bhagvat Pada wrote Avadhuta gita not the well known Avadhuta Gita but another one whose verses are said to be very similar to Vakya Vrutti ascribed to Shnakarcharya. All these claims from various Shankara digvijayas and nothing much is known.

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Rasahridayatantra is a book on alchemy. Most of the references to this book mention the author Govinda Bhagavatpada to be 9th century AD. This date itself shows that to consider that he is the guru of Sankara Bhagavatpada is a mistaken identity.

But this book seems to be highly popular in circles interested in alchemy.

Nagaraj Paturi

 

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

 

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )

 

 

 

[Nagaraj Paturi]

After some amount of search, now I realize that this book is highly familiar to the Rasa shastra students of Ayurvedic colleges.

The period of authorship of the book seems to be when many Jain Rasa shastra books were being written. So it is possible that this author is a Jain.

Words like Bhagavan are also frequently used in Jain books.  

[K S Kannan]

There is a Sanskrit commentary by (Late) Vidwan NSVenkatanathacharya on Yogataravali  published by ORI, Mysore.

The same (ie with the said commentary) has been published with a Hindi translation by Varanaseya Samskrta Samsthan

KSKannan

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Rasa Hridaya Tantra regarding :

The following is from an article

Rasa Hridaya Tantra - A Critical Analysis

By Ramesh Kumar Gupta, Sudhaldev Mahapatra, Sumer Singh, Jha C B

 

Published in International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine

 

Available at

http://www.ijam.co.in/index.php/ijam/article/view/05342014:

In 9th century A.D. Acharya Govinda Bhagavatpada, the preceptor of Sankaracharya, the illustrious profounder of Advaita Vedanta, authored this Rasa Hridaya Tantra which provides elaborative description of the processing of Mercury both for loha siddhi (metallic transformation i.e. formation of noble metal from the base metal) and deha siddhi (metabolic transformation i.e. make the body strong and healthy which leads to salvation). His father was Sri Sumano Vishnu and grandfather was Sri Magal Vishnu (1). Acharya Govinda Bhagavatpada was Raja vaidya of Sri Madan, king of Kirata. On request of king this text was composed by him.

"His father was Sri Sumano Vishnu and grandfather was Sri Magal Vishnu (1). Acharya Govinda Bhagavatpada was Raja vaidya of Sri Madan, king of Kirata."

do not match with any info on "Acharya Govinda Bhagavatpada, the preceptor of Sankaracharya, the illustrious profounder (sic) of Advaita Vedanta"

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks everyone who provided further information on this text, Rasahṛdayatantra, and how its author, Govindabhagavatpāda, may not be identical with the preceptor of Śaṅkarācārya.

With best regards,

Madhav Deshpande

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[Jaya Prakash]

Hello Madhav ji,

Please go through this PDF, in the Introduction it is mentioned that this is an part of Kapalika Tantra.

http://www.dli.gov.in/rawdataupload/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b5d_s1.pdf

Hari OM,

Jaya Prakash

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thank you Jaya Prakashji for this important resource that you have kindly made available.

Madhav Deshpande

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

(currently in Palo Alto, California)

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[Jaya Prakash]

few books mentioned about Rasa(Mercury, etc..)

Rasaratnakara of Siddha Nagarjuna

Rasarnava

Rasendracudamani or Somadeva

Rasaratnasamuccaya of Vagbhata

Rasaprakasa sudhakara of Yosadhara

Rasaratnakara of Nityanatha

Rasarajalakshmi of Rameswara Bhatt

Rasendracintamani of Ramachandra Guha

Rasasara of Govindacarya

Rasakaumudi of Jnana Chandra

Rasasanketakalika of Camunda

Rasapaddhati of Bindu Pandita

RAsamrta of Ramesvara

Rasendrasarasam graha of Gopala Krishna

Raradayoga of Sivarama yogin

Bhasma Vijnan by Harisharanananda vaidya

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[Vishal Agarwal]

Sometimes, the following two works are also ascribed to Govindabhagavatpada:

1. Yogataravali (at other times, attributed to Shankara): This work exists with a commentary wherein sometimes the mula verse are attributed to Govinda and the bhashya to Shankara. At other times, both to Shankara. Or sometimes the verses to Hastamalaka and bhashya by his teacher Shankara.

2. Paramarthasara of Shesha, different from its more popular recast by Abhinavagupta later.

Both of these are published several times. Let me know if you need copies electronically.

Regards,

Vishal Agarwal

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