________________
xii
CHAPTER XX
PHILOSOPHY OF THE RAMANUJA SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
Contents
I Sankara and Rāmānuja on the nature of Reality as qualified or unqualified
2 Refutation of Sankara's avidyā .
3 Ramanuja's theory of Illusion-All knowledge is Real
4 Failure of theistic proofs
5 Bhaskara and Rāmānuja
6 Ontological position of Rämănuja's Philosophy
7 Venkatanatha's treatment of Pramāņa
8 Venkatanatha's treatment of Doubt
9 Error and Doubt according to Venkatanatha
10 Perception in the light of elucidation by the later members of the Rāmānuja School
II Venkatanatha's treatment of Inference
12 Epistemology of the Rămănuja School according to Meghanādāri and others
13 The Doctrine of Self-validity of Knowledge
14 The Ontological categories of the Rămănuja School according to Venkatanätha
(a) Substance
(b) Criticism of the Samkhya Inference for Establishing the Existence of Prakyti
(c) Refutation of the Atomic Theory of Nyaya in relation to Whole and Part
(d) Criticism of the Samkhya Theory of Sat-kārya-vāda
(e) Refutation of the Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness
.
(f) Refutation of the Cārvāka criticism against the Doctrine of Causality
(g) The Nature of the Senses according to Venkatanatha (h) The Nature of ākāśa according to Venkatanatha (i) Nature of Time according to Venkatanatha
(j) The Nature of Soul according to Venkatanatha
(k) The Nature of Emancipation according to Venkatanatha
15 God in the Rāmānuja School
16 Dialectical criticism against the Sankara School
17 Meghanādāri
18 Vatsya Varada
19 Rāmānujācārya II alias Vādi-Hamsa-Navāmvuda
.
22 Kasturi-Rangācārya
23 Saila Srinivasa
24 Rangācārya
20 Rāmānujadāsa alias Mahācārya
21 Prapatti Doctrine as expounded in Śrīvacana-bhūṣaṇa of Lokācārya and Saumya Jāmātṛ Muni's Commentary on it
PAGE
165
175
179
189
192
195
201
207
210
220
225
235
247
251
251
256
262
265
268
276
280
282
284
286
292
296
304
346
349
352
361
374
381
384
395