Overview
"""Brahmasutras"" (BS) is a corpus of Vedanta. An interpretation of the central teachings of the Upanisads, BS has itself been a subject of numerous hermeneutical forays. Orientalist and Hindu scholars since the early 19th century have in particular promoted an interpretation from the monastic view of Advaita. Radically different trajectories of Hindu cultural self-understanding were by and large ignored. In this volume, Sri Pampada Chattopadhyay attempts a novel reading. His basic thesis is that the ""Bhagavata Purana or srimad Bhagavata"", a key scripture in Vaisnava theology, was the best available commentary on the original ""BS"". In other words, in order to understand the theistic and devotional nature of religious philosophy that underlies Vedanta, one has to depend upon the theological teachings of the ""Bhagavata"". Chattopadhyay draws on these teachings to correlate with issues pondered upon in the Upanisads and their subsequent influence on Vedanta, and in particular on the ""Brahmasutras"". He follows the traditional patterm of commenting on each section and chapter according to which the sutras have been divided, and engages in criticism of samkara and other Vedanta commentators on ""BS"""
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Author: Chattopadhyay ,
Bimal Matilal ,
Kanti Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 3
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.731kg
ISBN: 9789004095700
ISBN 10: 9004095705
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 01 February 1992
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
' Ein ansprechendes Dokument fur die dauernde Aktualitat klassischer Texte auch in modernen Indien. ' B.K., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft , 1994.
'Ein ansprechendes Dokument fur die dauernde Aktualitat klassischer Texte auch in modernen Indien.' B.K., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, 1994.
' Ein ansprechendes Dokument f]r die dauernde Aktualitdt klassischer Texte auch in modernen Indien.'<br>B.K., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenldndischen Gesellschaft, 1994.<br>
Author Information
Rampada Chattopadhyay (1872-1956) was a scholar of Hindu Theology and said to be a brilliant scholar of the University of Calcutta. During his service in the British administration he acquired knowledge of Sanskrit Śāstric tradition and its extensive philosophical literature, which earned him the title Vedānta Vidyārṇava. He wrote a number of works in Bengali, and his Brahmasītra-O-Bhāgavata ran into some 2,200 pages. The present work is an abridged English translation of the same.
