date of bhaTTa bhAskara

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Did BhaTTa Bhaskara belong to 10th century?

(Just like Vacaspati Mishra, fl. 975 CE). Generally,

lexicons and books date bhaTTa bhAskara

around ca. 950 CE. And, this would not

work against 900 CE date for Sankara.

 

Thanks, N. Ganesan

 

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There is a bhAskarAcArya who wrote commentaries on the prasthAnatrayI,

from the point of view of bhedAbheda. His date from Buddhist sources

is fixed 900-1000 CE.

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http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9811&L=indology&P=R20143

 

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Bhaskara: n (Sanskrit) Philosopher (ca 950). His

Bhaskarabhashya, a commentary on the Brahma Sutras,

was the first elaborate criticism of Shankara's Advaitic

doctrine of avidya-maya.

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(http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/dws/lexicon/b.html)

 

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Panentheism is embodied in those qualified nondual

Vedanta schools that accept the ultimate identity of

the soul and God. Examples are the Vishishtadvaita of

Bhaskara (ca 950), the Shuddha Advaita, "pure

nondualism," of Vallabha (ca 1475­1530) and, to a

lesser degree, the Vishishtadvaita of Ramanuja.

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(http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/dws/lexicon/v.html)

 

Book notice:

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Bhaskarabhatta, 10th/11th cent.

Sivasutravarttikam : Srivasuguptakrtanam Sivasutranam

slokatmakam Varttikam / Bhattabhaska-racaryaviracitam ;

parisiste ca ajnatakartrkaya Sivasutravrttya ; Srikal-

latacaryaviracitavrttyupetabhih spandakarikabhisca

samupetam; Srijagadisacandracatto-padhyayena samsodhitam. --

Dillinagaryam : Sarada-Pablising-Hausa, 1993.

204 p. in various pagings ; 23 cm.

In Sanskrit; pref. in English.

Cover title: The Sivasutravarttika of Bhatta Bhaskaracarya.

Added t.p. in English.

Originally published: 1916. (Kashmir series of texts and

studies; 4-5). With new introd. by Satkari Mukhopadhyaya.

Verse exposition, with text, of Sivasutra by Vasugupta,

basic work of the Trika school in Kashmir Saivism;

includes some other classical works of the school.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes index.

1. Kashmir Saivism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

2. Philosophy, Hindu. 3. Vasugupta. Sivasutra--

Commentaries. 4. Sivaism.

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