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10. Isvarapratipatti-prakasa an exposition of the various
ideas regarding God, held by the different systems of religious
thought, prevailing in the country.
xiii
Another commentary on the Gitā, the Gita-nibandha, which
is counted by Sri Rajendranath Ghosh as mentioned in the
Gudhartha-dipikā appears to have not been noticed by Sri
Diwanji. The Siddanta-bindu has been translated into English
by Sri P. C. Diwanji of the Bombay Civil Service (Judicial),
published in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series and by Sri Modi,
Professor of Sanskrit in the Bhavanagar College. Both these
books are not readily available now, this translator got them
only after he had completed his work.
There are four commentaries in Sanskrit on the work.
(1) The Bindu-sandipani of Sri Purushottamananda, (2) The
Bindu-vyakya of Sri Nārāyaṇa Tirtha, (3) The Nyāyaratnāvali
of Sri Brahmananda Sarasvati and (4) A modern commentary
by Mahamahopadhyāya Vasudeva Şastri Abhyankar of Poona.
Only the last two were available to the translator when this
translation was being made..
As mentioned earlier, this text is a commentary on Sri
Sankara's Daşa-sloki, wherein the central theme of the Advaita
Vedānta is expounded in very simple language. The essential
doctrine the identity of consciousness which is the reality of the
individual with the Infinite, the consciousness which is the reality
of the universe. From this it follows that it is not right to
identify the Self with any of the other categories of experienee
on which the perceived activity of life is based or which are
perceived or conceived or as is done by other thinkers. This is
done in the daşa-slokī taking up the categories from different
points of view. In each of the first eight verses the first two
quarters state the denial, the third gives briefly the reason on
which the denial is based and the last quarter asserts the accep-
ted identity. In the ninth verse, the first two lines give the
reason for the assertion made in the last and the third states the
consequent status of the phenomenal world. In the last verse,
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10. Isvarapratipatti-prakasa an exposition of the various
ideas regarding God, held by the different systems of religious
thought, prevailing in the country.
xiii
Another commentary on the Gitā, the Gita-nibandha, which
is counted by Sri Rajendranath Ghosh as mentioned in the
Gudhartha-dipikā appears to have not been noticed by Sri
Diwanji. The Siddanta-bindu has been translated into English
by Sri P. C. Diwanji of the Bombay Civil Service (Judicial),
published in the Gaekwad's Oriental Series and by Sri Modi,
Professor of Sanskrit in the Bhavanagar College. Both these
books are not readily available now, this translator got them
only after he had completed his work.
There are four commentaries in Sanskrit on the work.
(1) The Bindu-sandipani of Sri Purushottamananda, (2) The
Bindu-vyakya of Sri Nārāyaṇa Tirtha, (3) The Nyāyaratnāvali
of Sri Brahmananda Sarasvati and (4) A modern commentary
by Mahamahopadhyāya Vasudeva Şastri Abhyankar of Poona.
Only the last two were available to the translator when this
translation was being made..
As mentioned earlier, this text is a commentary on Sri
Sankara's Daşa-sloki, wherein the central theme of the Advaita
Vedānta is expounded in very simple language. The essential
doctrine the identity of consciousness which is the reality of the
individual with the Infinite, the consciousness which is the reality
of the universe. From this it follows that it is not right to
identify the Self with any of the other categories of experienee
on which the perceived activity of life is based or which are
perceived or conceived or as is done by other thinkers. This is
done in the daşa-slokī taking up the categories from different
points of view. In each of the first eight verses the first two
quarters state the denial, the third gives briefly the reason on
which the denial is based and the last quarter asserts the accep-
ted identity. In the ninth verse, the first two lines give the
reason for the assertion made in the last and the third states the
consequent status of the phenomenal world. In the last verse,
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