Prasthanatrayi

Prasthanatrayi (Sanskrit: प्रस्थानत्रयी, IAST: Prasthānatrayī), literally, three sources (or axioms), refers to the three canonical texts of theology having epistemic authority, especially of the Vedanta schools. It consists of:[1]

  1. The Upanishads, known as Upadeśa Prasthānam (injunctive texts), and the Śruti Prasthānam (the starting point or axiom of revelation), especially the Principal Upanishads.
  2. The Bhagavad Gītā, known as Sādhana Prasthānam (practical text), and the Smṛti Prasthānam (the starting point or axiom of remembered tradition)
  3. The Brahma Sūtras, known as Sūtra Prasthānam (formulative texts) or Nyāya Prasthānam or Yukti Prasthānam or Tarka Prasthānam (logical text or axiom of logic)

The Mukhya Upanishads consist of ten, twelve or thirteen major texts, with a total of 108 texts[2] described in Muktikopanishad. The ten Upanishads are Īśā, Kena, Kaṭha, Praṣna, Muṇḍaka, Māṇḍūkya, Taittirīya, Aitareya, Chāndogya and Bṛhadāraṇyaka.[3]

The Bhagavad Gītā is a part of the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabhārata.

The Brahma Sūtras also known as the Vedānta Sūtras, systematize the doctrines taught in the Upanishads and the Gītā.

Founders of the major schools of Vedanta, Adi Shankara, Madhvācharya wrote bhāṣyas (commentaries) on these texts. Rāmānujāchārya did not write any bhāṣya (commentary) on the Upanishads, but wrote bhāṣyas on Brahma Sutras also known as Śrī Bhāṣya and Bhagavad Gita. Even though Ramanuja did not write individual commentaries on principal Upanishads, he included many hundreds of quotations from Upanishads in his Śrī Bhāṣya. In the Ramanuja lineage, one of his followers, Raṅgarāmānuja, wrote commentaries on almost all of the Principal Upanishads around the 1600s. Vallabhacharya and Nimbarkacharya wrote bhāṣyas (commentaries) on Brahma Sutras and Bhagavad Gita but they did not write commentaries on Upanishads. Like Ramanuja, they quoted many verses from Upanishads in their works. Baladeva Vidyabhushana in his Govinda Bhashya and Gita-bhusana-tika quoted verses from Upanishads but later wrote separate commentaries on each of the 10 Upanishads.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Vepa, Kosla. The Dhaarmik Traditions. Indic Studies Foundation.
  2. ^ Original Upanishads spanned beyond 108 texts. However, only 108 texts remained during the oral transmission process across generations.
  3. ^ Bhacrya, Jvnanda Vidysgara (1872). Muktikopanishat of the White Yajurveda. Edited by Jibananda Bidyasagara. [Text in Sanskrit]. Robarts - University of Toronto. Calcutta Printed at the Sucharu Jantra.
  4. ^ Srila Baladeva Vidyabhushana – Biography[1]

Notes

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