[INDOLOGY] Viśiṣṭādvaita commentary on the Upaniṣads

[Lubomír Ondračka]

Perhaps the most complete list of Viśiṣṭādvaita commentaries on the Upaniṣads is in the 20th volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, ed. by Stephen H. Phillpis and Karl H. Potter, Motilal Banarsidass, 2017). It is useful that each entry indicates where the text was published (or whether it exists only in manuscript). Modern authors (from the 20th century) are also included.

Best
Lubomir


On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:32:24 +0000
Srilata Raman via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Dr. Ryan,
> There are the following works:
> -Subālopaniṣadvivaraṇa of Sudarśana Sūri (ca. 13th century)
> - Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya of Vedānta Deśika (ca. 13th-14th century)
> - Īśāvāsyopaniṣadvyākhyā of Nārāyaṇamuni (2nd Jīyar of the Ahobila maṭha, ca. 15th century)
> - Māṇḍukya, Īśā and Taittirīya commentaries by Kūranārāyaṇa (disciple of Vedānta Deśika, ca.15th century)
> - Commentaries on 16 Upaniṣads by Raṅgarāmānujamuni (16th century)
> -Taittirīya Upaniṣad Bhāṣya by Govindācārya (16th century?)
> - a commentary on Vedānta Deśika's Īśopaniṣadbhāṣya by Uttamūr Vīrarāghavācāriyār (20th century)
> to name some of the works I am aware of.
> It is evident from this list that the Upaniṣads concentrated on, post-Rāmānuja, seem to have been really no more than 3-4 with the Īśopaniṣad and the Taittirīya the most important. The former particularly has an intermittent commentarial tradition after Vedānta Deśika wrote a commentary on it. Finally, we seem to have virtually no Upaniṣadic commentaries extant between the 17th-20th centuries until Uttamūr Swami who was one of the last living polymaths of the Vaṭakalai tradition, as far as I am aware. But I am always happy to be enlightened further on this interesting issue.
> 
> with kind regards,
> Srilata
> ----------------------------------
> Srilata Raman,
> Professor of Hinduism,
> Department for the Study of Religion,
> University of Toronto.
> 
> 
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Rāmānuja never wrote a work that was a commentary on a full Upaniṣad like those of Śaṅkarācārya. Does anyone know of
> Upaniṣadic commentaries written in the Viśiṣṭādvaita tradition in either Tamil or Sanskrit? Or published scholarship relating
> to same?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim Ryan
> Asian Philosophies and Cultures (Emeritus)
> California Institute of Integral Studies