Re: [INDOLOGY] Question regarding Ācāryaśāpa

Wed Jun 7 12:44:18 UTC 2017

I am resending an earlier message, which apparently did not reach indology
list because google could not deliver it to the address of Nagaraj.
Christophe has already given the reference, but here are more details and
how you can download pdf(s):

On the anācāras of the Kerala Brahmins, see the appendices to my wife
Marjatta Parpola's book "Kerala Brahmins in transition: A study of a
Nampūtiri family" (Studia Orientalia 91), Helsinki: The Finnish Oriental
Society, xii, 436 pp. In the appendices (pp. 403-425)  I reproduce
Śāṅkarasmṛti 1,12,4 in Sanskrit and its Malayalam commentary with an
annotated English translation of the former. My wife then discusses
Logan's, Fawcett's and S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer's discussions of these
rules, and finally I reproduce Gundert's Keral'-achara-sancshepam.
Pdf(s) of the book('s chapters) can be downloaded freely from

http://journal.fi/store/issue/archive

Withe best regards and wishes, Asko

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> When I wrote in my second post:
>
> It is possible that the portion listing the sixty four anācāras and
> corresponding to adhyāya 12, pāda 4 of the  Laghudharmaprakāśikā, was
> separately known as the Anācāra-nirṇaya
>
> (without having checked what Kane — or possibly David — says thereabout) I
> made this conjecture on the sole basis of Burnell's statement (
> https://archive.org/stream/ordinancesofmanu00manu#page/n55/mode/2up )
> pointed out by Madhav:
> "And in Malabar, Cochin and Travancore this [= the fact that "even among
> South Indian Brahmans numberless usual practices are opposed to the
> Sanskrit law"] is so much the case, that *a small manual called
> the Anācāranirṇaya* has been composed to enumerate them — fn: This *tract*
> is* attributed to Çaṅkara* of course (...)"
> Since no Kerala manuscript appears to bear this title.
> Now in checking dharma texts entitled ācāraḥ, ācārasaṅgrahaḥ, keral
> ācārasaṅgrahaḥ, found in catalogues, I came across a short tract entitled
> *Ā**cār**anirṇaya *or* Keral**ā**cār**anirṇaya* ascribed to Śaṅkarācarya (several
> MSS. in the KUML, apparently described in the Descr. Cat. Curator's Office
> Library as the no. 371B, i.e. in vol. 2 1938, unfortunately not at hand)
> which must correspond to Burnell's reference and deserves to be more
> closely regarding the Kerala… anācāra*s*.
> Best wishes,
> C
>
> PS: correct the typo in my very first post (already giving the references
> usefully repeated by Parpola and Olivelle): "the Laghudharmaprakāśikā
> attributed to one Śaṅkara [not Śāṅkara], also known as Śāṅkarasmṛti."
>
> Le 7 juin 2017 à 12:59, Olivelle, J P via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> Dear Madhav:
>
> Don Davis is the person to consult on this. There are several texts
> written about “anācāra” — which is, contrary to what it seems, is actually
> practices that are proper but goes against the ācāra of the smṛtis and are
> OK in Kerala. The CESMEO published a text called Śāṅkarasmṛti alias
> Laghudharmaprakāśikā, edited and translated by N. P. Unni in 2003. In Ch.
> 12 of that work there is a list of 64 anācāras.
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2017, at 6:06 PM, 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:
>
>
> 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
>>
>
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