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Vaishtha Ganapati Muni His LIfe and works
Julieta Rotaru
Vedic Śākhās: Past, Present, Future. Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest 2011. Edited by Jan E.M. Houben, Julieta Rotaru and Michael Witzel, 2016
The study concerns the reconstruction of Paiṭhīnasi’s work from the numerous fragments attributed to this author in the vast ritual and juridical literature. Such philological enterprises belong rather to the past decades or even to the last century, as it could be seen in a footnote of my introduction, yet, my subject is of great modernity. The question about the identity of Paiṭhīnasi and precisely, about the connection of his work with the Atharvaveda is addressed in very recent articles, presentations and forthcoming books (v. Alexis Sanderson in The Atharvaveda and its Paippalādaśākhā. Historical and Philological Papers on a Vedic Tradition, Griffiths, Arlo and Annette Schmiedchen (ed.). Indologica Halensis. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, also Arlo Griffiths and Key Kataoka in the same volume, Shilpa Sumant, presentation of her (joint work with Arlo Griffiths) forthcoming edition of the ritual Paippalādin manual Karmapa~njikā, and also Karmasamuccaya, which are professedly base
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G. Krishna - Nayana - Kavyakantha Vasistha Ganapati Muni
G. Krishna - Nayana - Kavyakantha Vasistha Ganapati Muni
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Ganapati Muni: The Man and His Mission
G. SRIRAMA MURTY, M.A.
A. M. A. L. College Anakapalle,
Were it possible for a Vedic Rishi like Vasistha, Viswaamitra or Madhuchchandas to come down to us in flesh and blood and live amidst us in the machine age, how would he look like? Would he be like a Rip Van Winkle in the modern world? Would he be like a fish out of water and cut a sorry figure in all probability? Such questions seem idle now since Kaavyakantha Vaasistha GanapatiMuni, known as Naayana, occurred and proved beyond a shadow of doubt the Aurobindonian thesis that the Rishi is not a thing of the past. Generations to come would certainly wonder whether such a man as Naayana had ever walked the earth in twentieth century. Truly did his biographer sing.1
“Atlmaanusha Gambhira Vismayaavaha Vistaraa Vaanivilasa bhuyista Muner Ganapateh Katha.”
(The great life story of Ganapati Muni is deeply steeped in superhuman significance; is wonderful; is full of graceful play of the Goddess of Speech and Learning.)
Ayyalasomayaajula Surra Ganapati Sastry popularly known as Vaasistha Ganapati Muni alias Naayana, was born in 1878 at his maternal uncle’s house in Logeesa Agrahaaram in the present Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh. He came of a learned family well-known for i