An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation: Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha’s Paramokṣanirāsakārikāvṛtti, a commentary on Sadyojyotiḥ’s refutation of twenty conceptions of the liberated state (mokṣa)
Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma
An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation : Bhatta Ramakantha’s Paramoksanirasakarikavrtti, a commentary on Sadyojyotih’s refutation of twenty conceptions of the liberated state (moksa).Edited, translated into English and annotated by Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, S.L.P. Anjaneya SarmaThis book presents a short philosophical treatise in which twenty rival theories of the liberated state (moksa) are introduced and countered, and a long, discursive commentary that explores and develops the arguments that the treatise advances or implies. The original treatise comprises fifty-nine Sanskrit verses composed by Sadyojyotih (c. 675–725 AD), the earliest named Saiva philosopher of the Mantramarga of whom works survive. The commentator, Bhatta Ramakantha (c. 950–1000 AD), was a Kashmirian whose writings systematised the doctrines of the classical Saiva Siddhanta, for some centuries the dominant school of tantric Saivism.Presented here is a first critical edition of these interlinked works and a richly annotated English translation. A lightly annotated introduction lays out clearly the ideas that the edited texts expound. Their study casts light not only on the history of Saiva thought, but also on a number of religio-philosophical doctrines for which little other testimony survives. Keywords: Liberation (moksa), Saiva siddhanta, Indian philosophy, Hindu theology, Saivism, Sanskrit philology, Sadyojyotih, Ramakantha
Année:
2013
Editeur::
Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient
Langue:
english
Pages:
508
ISBN 10:
8184701950
ISBN 13:
9788184701951
Collection:
Collection Indologie - 122
Fichier:
PDF, 22.57 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013