Report on the search for Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bombay Presidency during the year 1882-83 / by Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar.

  • Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar
Date:
1884
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Credit: Report on the search for Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bombay Presidency during the year 1882-83 / by Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be correct, since the third assigns to two success¬ ive pontiffs, 7.C., the eleventh and the twelfth, sixty and fifty-eight years. AnandaUrthas date. rp]10 results of the comparison are given in L., Appendix II. It will be seen from the list there given that Anandatirtha died in Saka 1119 corresponding to 1197 a.d. The system founded by Anandatirtha is so bitterly hostile to that of Saiiikaracharya that its followers consider the latter teacher to be an incarnation of a Daitya or demon whose object was to deceive mankind. According to Sariikara’s system the world is an unreality and the only reality is an uncondi¬ tioned and blissful* soul. All Comparison of the conditions or linlitations of doctrines or oaiiikara , . . ,, and Madhya. wllicll Our SOUl IS COnSClOUS, all feeling, even the sense of indi¬ viduality, and the external world, arise from the de¬ velopment 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 in¬ dividuality 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 re¬ spects. These are the speculative doctrines of Madhva, Practically lie enjoins the worship of b 904—3
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