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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
and congruences of the different ideas and on their merits and demerits, and to decide which of the great thinkers one would like best to follow : Kapila or Patañjali, Sarkara or Rāmānuja, Akşapäda or Kaņāda, Gośāla, Buddha, or Mahāvīra ?
Each of them claims to promulgate truth, each of them promises to lead mankind to salvation, and each of them has, or once had, numbers of enthusiastic devotees, ready to challenge and to argue with, anybody who would dare to doubt the competence of his particular champion.
I do not venture to provoke the grudge of the disappointed majority by siding with any of them, all the more since such a declaration would hardly contribute to a definite settlement of the millenium-old problem of the superiority of one or other of the famous Darśanas. Thus, venerable Haribhadra Sūri shall have the last word with his beautiful confession never to have taken the part of any philosopher in particular, but rather to have always been ready to approve of all that appears reasonable, whosoever may be its promulgator :
pakşapāto na me Vire, na dveşaḥ Kapilādiņu yuktimad vacanaṁ yasya, tasya kāryaḥ parigrahaḥ.
( Lokatattva-nirņaya, 38 )
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