[INDOLOGY] Mandan Misra -SureshwarAcharya

Sat Mar 24 20:39:31 UTC 2018

Dear Alakendu Das,

S. Kuppuswami Sastri’s 1937 edition of Brahmasiddhi of Ācārya Maṇḍanamiśra
has been scanned by the Digital Library of India and is available at
Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/BrahmasiddhiByAcaryaMandanamisraKuppuswamiSastri

The entire section of S. Kuppuswami Sastri’s Introduction on this question,
pp. xxiv-lvii, has also been published separately as an article, “Maṇḍ
ana-Sureśvara Equation in the History of Advaita,” Annals of the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute, vol. 18, 1937, pp. 121-157. It is now
available at JSTOR.

Best regards,

David Reigle

Colorado, U.S.A.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:59 PM, alakendu das <
mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com> wrote:

> Dr.David and Nancy Ringley,
>
> Thank you very much for your very very illuminating answer.I wish I would
> be able to make a search for Kuppuswamy's article.
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> Alakendu Das.
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> From: "David and Nancy Reigle"dnreigle at gmail.com
> Sent:Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:57:57 +0530
> To: alakendu das mailmealakendudas at rediffmail.com
> Cc: Indology indology at list.indology.info
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Fw: Mandan Misra -SureshwarAcharya
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> Dear Alakendu Das,
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> Since the story of Maṇḍana Miśra becoming Sureśvara is only found in some
> religious biographies of Śaṅkarācārya, we cannot know for certain whether
> it is fact or fiction. Therefore some scholars have tried to determine this
> by comparing the writings of Maṇḍana Miśra and Sureśvara, and finding
> references to them in other writings.
>
> The first person to call into question the accepted tradition of their
> identity seems to have been M. Hiriyanna in two articles, “Suresvara and
> Mandana-Misra,” published in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of
> Great Britain and Ireland, 1923, pp. 259-263, and 1924, pp. 96-97. After
> some intervening articles on this topic by others, S. Kuppuswami Sastri, in
> his long English Introduction to his 1937 Sanskrit edition of Brahmasiddhi
> of Ācārya Maṇḍanamiśra, pp. xxiv-lvii, provided considerably more evidence
> that the two are different individuals. Yet in the Foreword to that same
> 1937 book, pp. vi-ix, P. P. Subrahmanya Sastri countered this evidence and
> maintained the traditional identity of the two. The debate has continued
> ever since. Suffice it to give two examples.
>
> R. Balasubramanian in his article, “Identity of Maṇḍanamiśra” (Journal of
> the American Oriental Society, vol. 82, 1962, pp. 522-532), did not accept
> as definitive Kuppuswami Sastri’s evidence that the two are different
> individuals. He concluded, p. 532: “We can settle this question only if
> there is more definite evidence than we have at present in favour of either
> of the two views.”
>
> Allan Wright Thrasher in his book, The Advaita Vedānta of Brahma-siddhi
> (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993), wrote, p. 121: “I do not wish here to
> reopen the debate on Maṇḍana’s identity with Sureśvara, which I consider to
> have been settled once for all against their identity by Kuppuswami Sastri
> in his introduction to the BS.” Thrasher gives a bibliography of the debate
> in note 36 on pp. 155-156, with fuller references found in the Bibliography
> to his book, including dates of publication. He also counters
> Balasubramanian’s article in note 37, pp. 156-157.
>
>
> >
> Best regards,
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> >
> David Reigle
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> Colorado, U.S.A.
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>> > Can anybody may kindly enlighten me on the question as to whether the
>> names Mandan Misra and
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>> > SureshwarAcharya refer to the same person.? History has to say that
>> Mandan Misra engaged himself in an
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>> > ardous argumentation with Shankaracahrya ,while utimately accepting
>> defeat, and was Re christened as
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>> > SureshwaraAcharaya. Is this fact or fiction?
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