Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

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

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System of Rilmánuja and Nimbárka.—Another system of the Vedanta was founded by Râmânuja in
the south and by Nimbarka Doctrines. who was a southern Brâhman in the north. There is not much difference between the doctrines of these teachers. According to them there is a unity of substance as well as plurality. The individual souls and the inanimate world form one substance with God in so far as he animates them. He is the soul of our souls and the soul of the world, and these are his body; and as the human soul with the human body forms one individual, so does the supreme soul with his body, viz., the world and the dependent souls, form one substance. Thus we have unity. But plurality also is true in so far as the distinction between the threethe supreme soul, tho dependent souls, and the world-is never obliterated. Practically, Râmânuja enjoins the worship of Nârâyaņa generally, but Nimbârka seems to have attached particular importance to the Krishna incarnation and in this respect was a precursor of Vallabhâchârya. We have no work expounding Nimbarka's system in the collection, but there is a manuscript of a tract entitled the
Sishțagîtâ, (No. 83), in which bishțagita. all great persons from Brahmâ, Siva, and Vyasa down to Bhattojidîkshita and Chaitanya are represented as having held a meeting at Kâsî and extolled the doctrines of Nimbârka and recommended them to all mankind. According to one of the speakers all inconsistent doctrines finally resolve themselves into those of Nimbârka as rain-water wherever it may drop finally reaches the ocean and is absorbed in it. There is a copy of another work belonging to the sect entitled
Harigurustavamâlâ, (No. 84), Harigurustavamala.
tavamälä. which contains Stotras referring to Vishnu in one or more of his forms and to the