Talk:Madhvacharya

there is already another conflicting version at Madhva. i think that should be merged into this. pamri 14:13, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)

Please don't cite sources in the article itself. Either do it here or ignore it or add it in the external links. pamri 12:22, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Pictures

According to this site's(http://www.sanskrit.org/Madhva/madhva.html) editor, these images are in the Public Domain. But am putting some better pictures. pamri 13:01, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

done. pamri 14:19, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sarvadarsana Sangraha

PROBLEM HERE: MADVACARYA DIDN'T WRITE THE SARVADARSANA SANGRAHA. IT WAS WRITTEN BY MADHVACARYA (NOTE THE "A" AFTER THE "M"), AN ADVAITIN SCHOLAR WHO CHAMPIONED SANKARA. - 152.163.100.7

I also have my doubts whether this madhvacharya wrote this work. This posting too states the same thing. pamri 14:19, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• I indeed committed a blunder. Both pamri and 152.163.100.7 are correct; Madhvacharya, the exponent of dvaida-vada (dualism) did not write Sarva-darsana-sangraha. Madhavacharya, the monist, authored it. As can be seen from the following quotations, Madhvacharya and Madhavacharya belonged to two diametrically opposite systems of thought. Consequently, the information related to Lokayata should be shifted to the page of Madhavacharaya from the page of Madhvacharya. But as of now, there is no page on Madhavacharya in Wikipedia. If you search, you are redirected to the page of Madhvacharya. This is to be corrected, perhaps by the administrators.

For the benefit of wikipedia users who might have been misled by the text I added, I quote some texts from three authoritative books in support of my latest changes.

“The systems are arranged from the Vedanta point of view – our author having been elected, in AD 1331, the head of the Smarta order in the Math of Sringeri in Mysore territory, founded by Sankara Acharya, the great Vedantist teacher of eighth century….” (Preface by E.B.Cowell, one of the English translators of “The Sarva-darsana-sangraha” Page viii, Motilal Banarasidas Publishers, Delhi)

“Madhava’s sarvadaarsanasamgraha (AD 1380) sketches sixteen systems of thought so as to exhibit a gradually ascending series, culminating in the Advaita Vedanta (or non-dualism)” (S.Radhakrishnan, Page 48, Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 11th impression, 2004)

“Madhva’s theory is called dvaita-vada, the doctrine of plain dualism. According to this, God is only the efficient cause of creation. This God is conceived mythologically as Visnu who, whenever he becomes incarnate, has Vayu, the air-god, as his son. Madhva himself is said to be an incarnation of Vayu, who came to earth to destroy the followers of Sankara and all their teaching. This is mythology, of course, but the extreme reaction agains the abstract monism of Sankara is quite evident in it” (Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Page 72, Indian Philosophy – a Popular Introduction, People’s Publishing House, New Delhi, 7th edition 1993)

I would like to point out here that Sarva-darsana-sangraha itself doesn’t contain the 16th chapter (Advaita Vedanta or the System of Sankara), absence of which is explained by a paragraph at the end of the 15th chapter (The Patanjali-Darsana). It says: “The system of Sankara, which comes next in succession, and which is the crest-gem of all systems, has been explained by us elsewhere, it is therefore left untouched here” (Page 273, The Sarva-darsana-sangraha, Motilal Banarasidas Publishers, Delhi) MANOJTV 08:10, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)