[Advaita-l] Evidence for Hari-Hara worship in early 13CE

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Mon May 29 01:48:13 EDT 2017


On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 7:24 AM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Sriram Sankaranarayanan <
> ssriram1992 at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> Namaskarams to all,
>>
>> Adding to this from the Skanda Upanishad
>> <http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/skandaupan.html?lang=sa>
>>
>> //
>>
>> शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय शिवरूपाय विष्णवे ।
>> शिवस्य हृदयं विष्णुः विष्णोश्च हृदयं शिवः ॥ ८॥
>>
>> यथा शिवमयो विष्णुरेवं विष्णुमयः शिवः ।
>> यथान्तरं न पश्यामि तथा मे स्वस्तिरायुषि ॥ ९॥
>>
>> यथान्तरं न भेदाः स्युः शिवकेशवयोस्तथा ।
>> देहो देवालयः प्रोक्तः स जीवः केवलः शिवः ॥ १०॥
>>
>> //
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Sriram
>>
>
> Dear Sriram,
>
> The first two verses are chanted daily during sandhyavandanam by Telugu
> and Kannada speaking  smārta-s.  A Telugu sandhyavandanam book by Krishna
> Pandita printed in the early 1900 s has these verses. Also these verses are
> present in the Mahabharata, in a slightly varied form, as stated by Arjuna.
>

Mahabharata:

शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय विष्णवे शिवरूपिणे ।।

दक्षयज्ञविनाशाय हरिरूपाय ते नमः। 3.39.76

In the Harivamsha, an extension of the Mahabharata, we have Makandeya's
words:

मार्कण्डेय उवाच॥ शिवाय विष्णुरूपाय विष्णवे शिवरूपिणे। अथान्तरं न पश्यामि
तेन ते दिशतः शिवम् ।

regards
vs


>
> regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>>
>> Hamsah Soham
>>
>>
>>
>>
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