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magnanimgus and balanced approach and cricicism 19 and loyalty to original sources make his treatment of Buddhism live and enchanting. Being "a constructive philosopher of the first rank"?0 he keeps the reader spellbound with the magic of his forceful and lucid language and literary exposition and justice to the subject. In the end one would like to say : tasmai Buddhaya”namo namaḥ !
Reference Notes
1. Cf rucinām vaicitryādījukuţilanānā pathajuşām, nīņām eko gamyah tvam asi payasām arņava iva.//
Puspadanta, Śivamahimnastotra. 7. 2. Radhakrishnan S, IP, p. 608. 3. For a brief lifeskehla and philosophy of S. Radhakrishnan, vide e.g.
Raju P.T., Idealistic thought of India, London, 1953, Chapter VII; Mahadevan T.M.P. and Saroja G. V., Contemporary Indian Philosophy, New Delhi, 1983, Chapter VIII; Narawane V.S., Modern Indian Thought:
A Philosophical Survery, Bombay 1967, Chapter VIII. 4. Raju P.T., op. cit., p. 331. 5. Raju P.T., op. cit., p. 331. 6. Narawane V. S., op. cit., p. 242; vide also Fragments of a Confession
(Tudor, p. 13) as referred to in ibid, p. 242. 7. Raju P.T., op. cit., p. 333 8. Raju P.T., op. cit., p. 333. 9. Quoted by M. Winternitz in his "A History of sndian Literature"
Vol J, p. 79. (Calcutta, 1927). 10. Cf sämänyam vā višeso tad anyena samarthyate yatra so'rthāntaranyāsaḥ sådharmyenetareņa vāl/
Mammața, Kāvyaprakāşa 10.23. 11. It was read on 29 June, 1938. 12. The fn. 3 on p. 353 of the IP reads "abhi, beyond; dhamma,
physics, Medhamnas are analysed in Abhidhamma." 13. SR. on nirvāṇa vide IP, pp. 447 ff; DP, pp. 46 st 14. Narawane V.S; op.cit, p. 236.
