1st Edition
Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana
By Sucharita Adluri
Copyright 2015
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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Theistic Vedānta originated with Rāmānuja (1077-1157), who was one of the foremost theologians of Viśistādvaita Vedānta and also an initiate of the Śrīvaisnava sectarian tradition in South India. As devotees of the God Visnu and his consort Śrī, the Śrīvaisnavas established themselves through various processes of legitimation as a powerful sectarian tradition. One of the processes by which the... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The Individual Self, Cosmology, and the Divine Body in the Vedārthasaṃgraha
3. Brahman, Individual Self, and Ignorance in the Śrībhāṣya
4. Sāṃkhya-Yoga, Kṛṣṇa, and the Foremost Devotee in the Bhagavadgītābhāṣya
Biography
Sucharita Adluri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Cleveland State University. Her research interests include Sanskrit Commentary and Intellectual History and the History of Religions of South India.
