Dear Bhagavatas: In his book "Acharya Hridayam" of Azhagiya Manavala Perumal Nayanar, Sri B.S.S. Iyengar Swami has quoted the following sloka from a work called "Lokacharya Panchasat" attributed to Swami Vedanta Desikan, under the title "A Homage from one genius to another" "VaNee puNya sudhaapagaam sathagitah svairam vigaahyaadaraat Aaneeyaamrutamatra chakraturubhaou paaNeeya saalaatmakam / Yow vaagbooshaNa dEsikEndra hridaya abhikya prabandhadvayam Tau vandE bhuvanaarya sundaravarau krishNaatmajou dEsikou //" (Vedanta Desika ? Lokacharya Panchasat ? 10) Meaning as given by Sri B.S.S. Iyengar Swami: "I prostrate the two Acharyas, Lokacharya and Azhagiya MaNavaaLan, the sons of KrishNapaadar, one of the two famed compositions composed by them, the ornament of the sayings (Sri Vachana bhooshaNam) and the inner core (Achaarya Hridayam) of the foremost Acharya (Nammazhwar), as if nectar brought here like the cool drink in a stall (for the weary traveler), from the flood of nectar called the sacred utterances of SathagOpa, with the exhilaration of plunging in it with abandon" We have never heard of such a work by Swami Vedanta Desikan. If it had been really written by Swami Desika, Scholars of SrivaishNava Satsampradayam would have definitely commented on it or at least referred to it in their numerous works in these 700+ years. There seems to be a total absence of such references and this renders the work susceptible to doubt its authorship. Some have suggested that it was written by some latter day scholar interested in projecting a kind of rejoinder to the now famous verse of Pillai Lokacharya - praising Swami Desikan. "Seeronru Thoopul Tiruvenkatamudaiyaan Paar onrac chonna pazhamoziyul Ore onru taanE amiyadO daaraNiyil Vaazhwaarkku VaanErap pOmaLavum Vaazhvu" If any comments / references to the work from Poorva Acharyas can be quoted, it would help in confirming the claim. I invite scholars to throw light on this with adequate PramaNams. Dasoham Anbil Ramaswamy
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