[INDOLOGY] Mokṣopāya completed

[Madhav Deshpande]

If possible, can one share the pdf of Christophe Vielle's paper? Thanks.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM Walter Slaje via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Lyne,
>
> With reference to what you wrote in your paper:
>
> "[…] that Bhāskara could have been more or less contemporary with Śaṅkara.
> In that case, Bhāskara’s mūla would be the earliest evidence (c. 9th
> century) of the Kashmirian Gītā […]"
>
> I would like to draw the list's attention to Christophe Vielle's recently
> published study, which contains important findings that cannot be
> underestimated with regard to a precise, absolute dating of Śaṅkara during
> the reign of Vijayāditya [696–733 CE].
>
> See his 'The Great (Divine) Self Behind the Many Deities: The Vedānta
> Connection of the Nirukta Tradition,' in: ABORI 104 (2023) [publ.], § 4.
>
> It would also bring down the date of Bhāskara, the Vedāntin from Kashmir,
> to around the early 8th century.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Walter
>
> Am Fr., 22. Aug. 2025 um 15:23 Uhr schrieb Lyne Bansat-Boudon via INDOLOGY
> <indology at list.indology.info>:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> All thanks for this very interesting discussion.
>>
>> I would like to add another stone to the edifice of reasoning.
>>
>>  In 2018, Judit Törzsök and I published a paper entitled "Abhinavagupta
>> on the Kashmirian *Gītā*. Announcement of the First Critical Edition
>> of the *Gītārthasaṃgraha, *with the Reconstruction of the Text of the
>> Kashmirian *Gītā* [..] and a French translation of Both Texts", in *Journal
>> of Indian Philosoph*y (46.1: 31-64).
>>
>> Its final section (an Appendix, in fact), p.50 ff., deals with the (?)
>> Bhāskara (his identity, his place of origin, his philosophical persuasion,
>> etc.) under consideration in the platform’s discussion.
>>
>>  I attach the paper, hoping that our colleagues might find further
>> information there, and perhaps new material for other conclusions.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Lyne
>>
>>
>> NB: Some of you referred to Kato 2014. It happened that while preparing the J’s paper, I came through a first draft of Kato’s paper, and that I suggested a few emendations, mostly on the reasoning; see the printed Kato’s paper. It so happens that I had access to a first version of his paper and that I suggested some amendments, primarily concerning the reasoning.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Lyne Bansat-Boudon
>>
>> Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde
>>
>> Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses
>>
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