Re: [INDOLOGY] Works attributed to Śaṅkarācārya

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Dear Harry,

Specifically on the evaluation of Śaṅkarācārya's authorship of the
Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotram:

The first (and possibly still only) person to make a comprehensive
examination of the authorship of virtually all the writings attributed to
Śaṅkarācārya was S. K. Belvalkar, assisted by R. D. Vadekar. Belvalkar
announced the results in a 1925 lecture published in his *Shree Gopal Basu
Mallik Lectures on Vedānta Philosophy* (Poona, 1929). He considered 408
works attributed to Śaṅkarācārya, the largest number of which were stotras.
He concluded that only 24 of these 408 works were actually by Śaṅkarācārya.
These 24 included eight stotras, among which was the Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotram.
He regarded it as genuine because several old commentaries on it by
important Vedānta writers are available (see p. 222).

In 1932 Amarnath Ray's article, "The  Dakṣiṇāmūrti Hymn and the
Mānasollāsa," was published in *The Journal of Oriental Research*, Madras,
vol. 6, pp. 121-129. He rejected Śaṅkarācārya's authorship of this hymn,
regarding it instead as actually being the work of some Kashmir Śaiva
writer. The editor of this journal, S. K. Sastri, added a note at the end
of this article disagreeing with Ray's conclusion.

Robert Erwin Gussner studied seventeen hymns in his 1973 Harvard PhD thesis
(under Daniel Ingalls), *Hymns of Praise: A Textual-Critical Analysis of
Selected Vedantic Stotras Attributed to Sankara with Reference to the
Question of Authenticity*, comparing their terminology with that of the
*Upadeśasāhasrī*. A summary of his results was published in an article, "A
Stylometric Study of the Authorship of Seventeen Sanskrit Hymns Attributed
to Śaṅkara," *Journal of the American Oriental Society*, vol. 96, 1976, pp.
259-267. He rejected Śaṅkarācārya's authorship of fifteen of these
seventeen hymns on the basis of the criteria he used, and a sixteenth on
other grounds, but allowed the possibility of it for the Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotra.

Of course, this refers to the ten verses of this stotra proper, not to the
five additional verses that are often printed with it. Gussner has provided
a critical edition of these ten verses in his 1973 thesis.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.



On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I'm looking for articles that discuss the authorship of works attributed
> to Śaṅkarācārya .  Which works are considered genuinely by him and which
> are not.
>
> Even better are articles that discuss the authorship  and dating of the
> Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotram .  Whether that is considered genuinely by Śaṅkarācārya
> or whether that is a much later work.
>
> Many thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
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