[Advaita-l] Mahabharatha 'Vaishnava pATha'

Raghav Kumar Dwivedula raghavkumar00 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 19 03:02:27 EST 2019


It remains to be seen what verses have been removed from this self-declared
'vaiShNava' version of the Mahabharata.

One expedient way of 'samanvaya' would be presumably to just censor all
inconvenient truths and references praising Shiva as jagatkAraNam
And verses of obvious Non-dual import.  Hopefully they don't resort to such
tactics.





On Sat 19 Jan, 2019, 12:32 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org wrote:

> Here is an announcement about a 'vaishnava' recension of the Mahabharatha
> brought out in multiple volumes by the Palimaru maTha,  Udupi:
>
>
> https://sripalimarumatha.org/index.php/news/mahabharata-e-publications?fbclid=IwAR1m-tjvPJoLkuZk6gdyLVZnDgwTM0bkycUJTZA4VqyLlEow4QWh7p9IGlk
>
> The 'uniqueness' of the publication is stated as:
>
> //This edition of Mahabharata published by Shri Matha is based on the
> literary works of Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya by Shri Madhvacharya and
> Mahabharata Lakshalankara by Shri Vadiraja Teertha. Therefore, instances
> not validated by Lord Vedavyasa will not be found in this edition making it
> one of its specialities.//
>
> According to the above, there are editions that have instances that are not
> to the liking and approval of Madhva and Vadiraja Teertha. And naturally,
> they are deemed not validated by Veda Vyasa. The implicit conclusion is
> that such instances found in various editions  are interpolations.  The
> labeling of this edition as 'vaishnava pATha' is strange indeed, and its
> implication is anybody's guess.
>
> Unless the volumes are examined one can't be sure as to in what way this
> edition is different from the Kumbhakonam edition edited and brought out by
> T.R.Krishnacharya and T.R.Vyasacharya, Madhva Vilas Book Depot, Kumbhakonam
> in 1909  and the one that was recently brought out/updated by a review
> committee in which Dr.D.Prahladachar and Sri Srinivasa Varkhedi were
> members along with others.
>
> A closeup view of the cover page:
>
>
> https://sripalimarumatha.org/sites/default/files/cover_013.jpg?fbclid=IwAR3z79Us0_2pUBf0zqHY16u0sKGEvNj1a5CCMADofEmUuP861uE2VbYwdx0
> <
> https://sripalimarumatha.org/sites/default/files/cover_013.jpg?fbclid=IwAR3z79Us0_2pUBf0zqHY16u0sKGEvNj1a5CCMADofEmUuP861uE2VbYwdx0
> >
>
> regards
> subbu
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