History of Indian Philosophy

SR No.: 007593
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Surendranath Dasgupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 1922
Total Pages: 2517
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 125 MB

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The Sankara School of Vedānta [CH. the dispenser of the concrete elemental world (virāt), and all the figures that are manifested thereon are the living beings and other objects of the world. It is Brahman that, being reflected through the māyā, assumes the diverse forms and characters. The false appearance of individual selves is due to the false identification of subjectivity-a product of māyā—with the underlying pure consciousness-Brahman. Vidyāraṇya then goes on to describe the usual topics of the Vedānta, which have already been dealt with. The chief and important feature of Vidyāranya's Pañcadašī is the continual repetition of the well-established Vedāntic principles in a clear, popular and attractive way, which is very helpful to those who wish to initiate their minds into the Vedāntic ways of self-realization'. His Vivaraņa-prameya-samgraha is a more scholarly work; but, as it is of the nature of an elaboration of the ideas contained in Pañca-pădikā-vivaraņa, which has generally been followed as the main guide in the account of Vedānta given in this and the preceding chapter, and there being but few ideas which can be considered as an original contribution of Vidyāranya to the development of Vedāntic thought, no separate account of its contents need be given here. The Jivan-mukti-viveka, the substance of which has already been utilized in section 17 of chapter x, volume 1 of the present work, is an ethical treatise, covering more or less the same ground as the Naiskarmya-siddhi of Sureśvara.
Nșsimhāśrama Muni (A.D. 1500). Nộsimhāśrama Muni (A.D. 1500) was a pupil of Girvāṇendra Sarasvati and Jagannāthāśrama and teacher of Nārāyaṇāśrama, who wrote a commentary on his Bheda-dhikkära. He wrote many works, such as Advaita-dipikā, Advaita-pañca-ratna, Advaita-bodha-dīpikā, Advaita-vāda, Bheda-dhikkāra, Vācārambhana, Vedānta-tattvaviveka, and commentaries on the Samksepa-śāriraka and Pañca
1 There are four commentaries on the Pañcadas: Tattva-bodhini, Vrttiprabhākara by Niscaladāsa Svāmin, Tātparya-bodhini by Ramakrsna and another commentary by Sadānanda. It is traditionally believed that the Pancadast was written jointly by Vidyāraṇya and Bhārati Tirtha. Niścaladása Svāmin points out in his Vrtti-prabhākara that Vidvaranya was author of the first ten chapters of the Pañcadasi and Bharati Tirtha of the other five. Rāmakrsna, however, in the beginning of his commentary on the seventh chapter, attributes that chapter to Bharati Tirtha, and this fits in with the other tradition that the first six chapters were written by Vidyāranya and the other nine by Bhāratitirtha.
2 He also wrote another work on the Vivarana, called Vivaraṇopanyāsa, which is referred to by Appaya Dikşita in his Siddhānta-lesa, p. 68-Vivaranopanyase Bhāratitirtha-vacanam.