Re: [INDOLOGY] Works attributed to Śaṅkarācārya

[Harry Spier]

Thank you to Tracy Coleman, Willi Beinvogl, Elliot Stern, Timothy
Lighthiser, Alakendu Das, Jonathan Silk, David Reigle,, Claude
Newell-Lessiauer Rocco Cestola,and  Rembert Lutjeharms for the links and
articles on Sankara's authorship.

Harry Spier

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:39 PM, David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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