Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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be correct, since the third assigns to two successive pontiffs, i.e., the eleventh and the twelfthi,
sixty and fifty-eight years. Âuandatírtha's date. The results of the comparison are given in L., Appendix II. It will be seen from the list there given that Ånandatîrtha died in Saka 1119 corresponding to 1197 A.D.
Tho system founded by Anandatîrtha is so bitterly hostilo to that of Sankaracharya that its followers consider the latter teacher to be an incarnation of a Daitya or demon whose object was to deceive mankind. According to Samkara's system the world is an unreality and the only reality is an uncondi.
tioned and blissful soul. All Comparison of the
the conditions or limitations of doctrines of Sankara and Madhya.
a which our soul is conscious, all
feeling, even the sense of individuality, and the external world, arise from the development of a certain principle which consists of ignorance and which represents the soul as otherwise than what it really is and generates mere appearances. When this principle is got rid of, the soul is free from all limitations and the appearances are dis. solved, and being free from all misery, it resumes its pristine condition. This doctrine is condemned in unqualified terms by Madhva and his followers who maintain that the world is real, the feeling of individuality which separates one soul from another and from the inanimate world represents something that is real, God as different from the individual souls and from the world is real, that the relation between the individual soul and God is like that between a servant and his master, and that by worshipping and serving this master the individual soul is exalted and becomes like God in most respects. These are the speculative doctrines of Madhva, Practically he enjoins the worship of
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