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Re: Significance of Siva Linga
Vidyasankar Sundaresan <vidya@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Quite possible, but mANikkavAcakar's objections to advaita in the
>tiruvAcagam is on more philosophical grounds. It is the familiar
>objection to mAyA, that one finds from other schools also.
Thanks for the info. I am reasonably acquainted with chiva puraaNam, but not
much of M's works. I do have his collection with swami chitbhavananda's
explanations. Do you know the verse by any chance? swami c has changed the
traditional order and given the poems in his own order, so if you have the
verse can you mail it to me?
>One Sankara-vijayam says that Sankara debated with navagupta, a
>tAntrika. This navagupta is usually identified as abhinavagupta of
>Kashmir by many people. However, the text says that navagupta was from
>the region of kAmarUpa, which usually refers to Assam. I am unaware of
>any other reference that discusses the relationship between Sankara
>maThas and Kashmir Saivism. I would appreciate any leads you have.
>
>Madhava's sarva-darSana samgraha lists Kashmir Saivism as the
>pratyabhijnA darSana. I am not aware of any particular polemic against
>Kashmir Saivism even in this work.
Count me as one more of those who got fooled by the maadhaviiya shaMkara vijayam
:-). My details about history are quite legendary, meaning near zilch :-).
Rama.
--
Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said, "The flag is moving." The other
said, "The wind is moving." The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. He
told them, "Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving." - The Gateless Gate
