bhashya
भाष्य bhāṣyaA formal commentary on an authoritative text. Each major Vedanta teacher wrote a bhashya on the Gita and read it through his own system.
Where this term appears
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
To found a school of Vedanta was, in practice, to write a commentary, a bhashya , on all three.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
Ramanuja's bhashya has him hurled "ever" into the current of existence, and the Shrivaishnava word-for-word gives ajasram as "continuously".
- What Are the Six Darshanas? Philosophy
… compressed almost to the point of code, and around that root grows a bhashya , a commentary, and then commentaries on the commentary, layer upon layer across the centuries.
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
The oldest and indispensable commentary is the Yoga Bhashya attributed to Vyasa , written perhaps in the fourth or fifth century, and treated by the tradition as practically inseparable from the root text; to r…
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
His commentary on the Brahma Sutras , the Brahmasutra-bhashya , is securely his and is the foundation of everything.
- What is Moksha? Essentials
Ramanuja set this out in his Sri Bhashya , his commentary on the Brahma Sutras , reading the same Upanishadic sayings the non-dualists cite as describing a Brahman who has qualities and holds the souls and the …
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
In his Sri Bhashya , his commentary on the Brahma Sutras , he taught Vishishtadvaita , qualified non-dualism.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
…as argued in 2013 that the Sutras and their core commentary, the Yoga-bhashya traditionally ascribed to Vyasa and bound with the aphorisms in the manuscripts, are one work, composed somewhere around 350 to 450 …