Respectful Swamin, adiyEn is happy to introduce a beautiful book
based on research on Swami Desikan's Master piece, nyAyapariSuddhi by a
scholar, Dr. Vedavalli Narayanan. This book has been published by
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Lid.,
New Delhi.
adiyEn is gving a brief on the book and the author for the knowledge
of all to enable them to get a copy so that they will know the
fundamentals of our siddhanta VisishTAdvaita, that is, the epistemology of
VisistAdvaita Vedanta.
About the Contents:
"The soundness of any system of Philosophy depends on the logical
foundations over which it is built. As such epistemology plays a crucial
role in the course of its development. This book is an attempt at
presenting the epistemology of the Visistadvaita Vedanta based on the
thirteenth century classical text, NyAyapariSuddhi composed by the eminent
poet philosopher Vedanta Desika. It deals with the pramAnas as accepted by
the system.
After a brief introduction, the second chapter discusses the concept
of knowledge. The following three chapters closely follow the text in
their treatment of konowledge, i.e., Percption, Inference and Sabda
(scripture). The sixth chapter, titled 'Memory, Compariso, Postulation and
Non-Cognition, analyses the desirability of other pramAnas as
independent source of knowledge and concludes by showing how these can be
subsumed in the three main pramAnas.
This book represents an attempt at delving into an area that has not
received much attention ealier.
About the Author:
Vedavalli Narayanan, a student of Visistadvaita Vedanta, obtained her
PhD award from Dr.S.Radhakrishnan Institiute for Advanced Study in
Philosophy, University of Madras, Chennai. She has been a fellow of
the Indian Council for Philosophical Research, New Delhi and a Research
Associate with the University Grants Commission; she also taught
Visistadvaita Vedanta at the Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit
Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, for a few years. The present book forms a revised
version of her PhD dissertation.
The cost of the book is Rs.395/-
Publishers' Address:
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
54, Rani Jhansi Road, New Delhi 110055, India.
Regards,
dSan
anbil S.SrInivAsan
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