Re: [INDOLOGY] Question regarding Ācāryaśāpa

[Lubomír Ondračka]

Kane lists this work in his HDŚ (I/1, p. 990), but apparently does not discuss it anywhere in his book (I have checked indexes to all volumes). This is confirmed by Derret:

1/ "Most anācāra works are late. Kane mentions without particulars only the Anācāra-nirṇaya. K iii, 848, 856 f., discusses the earliest treatment of anomalous customs."
(Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law, vol. 2, Leiden: Brill, 1977, p. 62, n. 190)

2/ "On anācāra see ibid. [= Religion, Law and the State in India] 103, 193. Kane, HD I, 508 (Anācāra-nirṇaya, no particulars)."
(Dharmaśāstra and Juridical Literature, HIL 5.1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, p. 22, n. 114).

Interesting is another Derret's note:

"The Sanskrit for 'repugnant custom' is anācāra.  Works devoted to this topic (see Bhāratīya Vidyā, 6 (1945), pp. 27 ff.)  are all late."
(Religion, Law and the State in India, Delhi, Oxord University Press, 1999, p. 158, n. 1.)

The paper from BhV quoted by Derret is:

P. K. Gode, "Some Provincial Social Customs and Manners as durācāras by Varadarāja (a pupil of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita) – (c. A.D. 1600–1660)"

Gode quotes here an interesting dialog from the Gīrvāṇapadamañjarī that lists 17 durācāras from different parts of India.


LO



On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:06:02 -0400
Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I found an interesting reference in A. C. Burnell's The Ordinances of Manu,
> (Intro. p. xxxvii) to a work titled Anācāranirṇaya composed in Kerala to
> discuss "deviations" from Brahmanical Dharmaśāstras.  According the
> footnote on this page, this work was evidently attributed to Śaṅkara.  This
> may be the source of Śāmaśāstrī Draviḍa Dvivedi using the expression
> ācāryaśāpadagdha to refer to these regions.  Here is the passage from
> Burnell:
> 
> [image: Inline image 1]
> I wonder if anyone has come across this work titled Anācāranirṇaya.  Any
> help?
> 
> Madhav Deshpande
> Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> 
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >      In one of the curious passages of the Vedavicāra (written by
> > Śāmaśāstrī Draviḍa Dvivedī) that I am editing, the author says that though
> > the Gurjara's are included among Drāviḍas, other Drāviḍas do not have any
> > educational, ritual or marriage relations with them, because like the
> > Gauḍadeśa, there is too much anācāra "immoral behavior" among them, and
> > like the Brahmins of Kerala, they were cursed by an Ācārya, and therefore,
> > other Drāviḍas do not have any relations with them.  Here is the passage
> > from the text:
> >
> > यथा गुर्जराणां द्राविडान्तःपातिनामपि द्राविडैः सह भोजनादिसंव्यवहारादिकं
> > नास्ति*, *तथैवाध्ययनादिकमपीति ज्ञेयम् । कुतो गुर्जराणां संव्यवहाराभाव इति
> > चेदुच्यते । गौडदेशवद्गुर्जरदेशेऽप्यनाचारबाहुल्यात् तेषामा
> > चार्यशापदग्धत्वात्केरलदेशीयब्राह्मणादिवत्संव्यवहाराभाव इति संक्षेपः ।
> >
> > If anyone has a clue as to what this Ācāryaśāpa refers to, it would help
> > me make better sense of this passage.  Similarly, it is not clear what
> > anācārabāhulya he is referring to in the Gauḍa/Gurjara and Kerala regions.
> > Any suggestions will be helpful.  Best,
> >
> > Madhav Deshpande
> > Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> >