History of the Dvaita School of Vedānta and Its Literature: From the Earliest Beginnings to Our Own Times

Framsida
Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 2000 - 654 sidor
This study offers a panoramic view of the creative, expository, interpretive, dialectic, polemical, didactic and devotional phases of Dvaita philosophy, and its literature with a clear chronological setting of literary, historical and epigraphic materials. Written in lucid style it presents a vigorous and sparkling historical exposition of the mighty currents of Realistic Theism, originating in the Vedic and post-Vedic sources of Madhva philosophy finding their culmination in the Dvaita Vedanta of Madhvacarya, and the long line of his great commentators and followers, over a period of seven centuries from the thirteenth century onwards.
 

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Sida 270 - the Visistädvaita philosophy was not a source of perennial inspiration for the development of ever newer shades of thought" and that "the logical and dialectical thinkers of this school were decidedly inferior to the prominent thinkers of the Samkara and the
Sida 167 - Upanifad" (Introd. p. xxxv-vi. op. cit). Dr. Mahadevan has not been so outspoken. He merely opines that "the rival view has been there since a long time" (how long, he does not say); but the earliest to advocate it, so far as we can trace, were not the Advaitins.
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Sida 284 - etc. and runs after roundabout meanings and distant echoes resulting from the primary meanings ! But such roundabout explanations cannot be accepted as the proper, legitimate or straightforward meaning of the proposition. Such farfetched meanings extracted from the first sense of the words, cannot be the import of a proposition, as pointed out by the
Sida 49 - The Gita does not assert anywhere that Brahman is the only reality and all else that appears is false and unreal. The word Maya, is no doubt, used there, in three passages ; but its meaning is not what
Sida 284 - points out, exceptions restrict the scope of general principles : I The Nirguna texts are general statements and the Saguna texts are exceptions. The latter have, therefore, the right of overriding the former and laying down the law as to the sense in which they can be restrictively interpreted. This is based on the well-known principle of interpretation
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