Indian Philosophy v2.c26.s2.6

v2.c26.s2.6

² In one passage of his commentary on the B.S., Śaṃkara states that at the time of the transition from the Dvāpara to the Kali age, an ancient sage and Vedic teacher named Apāntaratamas was born as Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana by direction of Viṣṇu. Since Śaṃkara does not say that this Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana is the author of the B.S., Windischmann, and after him Telang, conclude that in Śaṃkara’s eyes the two personages were distinct (“A Note on Bādarāyaṇa,” J.A.S., Bombay, vol. xvi, 1883, p. 190). Wherever Śaṃkara quotes Vyāsa, he does so without implying that Vyāsa is the author of the Sūtra (ii. 1. 12; ii. 3. 47). There are many references to the B.G. and Śāntiparva of the M.B. in the B.S., if we accept the testimony of the commentators, which cannot be easily understood if the author of the Sūtra and the writer of the M.B. were one.