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talesasangraha is long overdue and it is earnestly
hoped that the work will be taken up at once.
His exposition of the Visishtadvaita system
which is a part of the whole work has been
published by an orthodox Vaishnava Pandit along
with the Sariraka Sastrartha Dipika. His exposi-
tion of Srikantha's system has been published
by the late Halasyanatha Sastrigal in his publica-
tion of the Sivarkamani Deepika. His expositions
of the Madhva and Advaita sytems have yet
to be published. In the beginning of the work
he declares that the three other systems are quite
near to the system of Sri Sankara which he pro-
nounces to be his own.
He says
 
आनन्दतीर्थमुनिलक्ष्मणदेशिकेन्द्र -
श्रीकण्ठयोगिपद्वीरवीयसीनः ।
enariyiçerfor a faferer arg
संगृह्यते मतचतुष्टयसारलेशः ॥
 
The expression are: appears to have
been taken by Dikshitar from Desikar with whose
works no one was more familiar than he and for
whom he had a genuine and warm regard. If Desi-
kar claimed the system of Sri Madhva as quite
near to his and called it संनिकृष्टमत (& near
faith) Dikshitar went very much farther in the