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... be exaggerated. In Fires of Love, Waters of Peace, Lee Siegel approaches the endlessly intriguing topic of "Passion and Renunciation in Indian Culture" through a study of two important figures: Sahkara, the archetypal renunciate and philosopher, and Amaru, author of the Atnaruiataka, the most celebrated...

... a misrepresentation of the nature of Hindu monotheism. . . . Nirguna-bhakti has its own rationale. . . . The juxtaposition of Sahkara's Advaita Vedanta and bhakti, and that of bhakti and jnana, is unwarranted. . . . Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Madhva and Vallabhacharya were not the initiators of any doctrine of bhakti...

... approaches the endlessly intriguing topic of "Passion and Renunciation in Indian Culture" through a study of two important figures: Sahkara, the archetypal renunciate and philosopher, and Amaru, author of the Atnaruiataka, the most celebrated anthology of Sanskrit kavya poetry on love. Siegel's argument...

... matrix in which it is situated, the two works under review might very well turn that inclination into a firm belief. Professor G. C. Pande (b. 1923), a distinguished Indian cultural historian, poet, and philosopher, has written a highly detailed, extensive, and masterful account of Sahkara's life...

... nirguna monotheism (rather than calling it monism) in order partly to blur the contrast with the saguna monotheism of the Vaishnava dcdryas. Similarly, Sharma conflates the definitions of bhakti attributed to Sahkara in the Vivekacuddmani ("the search for one's own essential form" [svasvarupdnusandhdnam...

... to depart- 272 FRITS STAAL ments of Philosophy in Indian (and some other) universities. Why this proliferation? One reason, no doubt, is Sahkara's fame as a philosopher, which has greatly increased during the past hundred years because of Neo-Vedanta, the Hindu Renaissance, and also because Sahkara's chief...

..., and philosopher, has written a highly detailed, extensive, and masterful account of Sahkara's life and philosophy that draws little, if any, inspiration from western ...

... of the nature of Hindu monotheism. . . . Nirguna-bhakti has its own rationale. . . . The juxtaposition of Sahkara's Advaita Vedanta and bhakti, and that of bhakti and jnana, is unwarranted. . . . Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Madhva and Vallabhacharya were not the initiators of any doctrine of bhakti as such" (p. xiv...

... delivered a marvelous work that can be used beneficially. A philosopher such as Madhva is still largely unknown in the West, and the present work brings him closer. Sharma's own sympathies seem to lie with Sahkara more than with any of the other great Vedantins. This explains to some extent the timelessness...

... be to situate this work within the larger concerns of late classical philosophy. There was an extraordinary efflorescence of philosophical activity in the seventh and eighth centuries, with the work of the Buddhist Dharmakirti, the MImamsaka Kumarila, the Naiyaiyika Uddyotakara, and Sahkara (although he...

... LARSON, Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and Meaning O'FLAHERTY, Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions O'FLAHERTY, Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts O'NEIL, Maya in Sahkara: Measuring the Immeasurable ROCHER (ed India and Indology: Selected Articles by W. Norman...

.... MISRA, SRINATH. 1984. Kathd performance. JanakI Mahal, Ayodhya, April 12. PANNIKAR, VASUDEVA LAXMAN SHASTRI, ed. 1982. Brahmasutra Sahkara bhdsya [The Brahmasutra with Sankara's commentary]. Varanasi: Krishnadas Academy. PODDAR, H A N U M A N PRASAD. 1938. Sri Ramcaritmdnas. Gorakhpur: Gita Press. SARAN...

.... [2d ed.] ANTARKAR, W . R. Brhat-Sankara-vijaya of CitSivanandanagar, The Yoga-Vedanta Forest sukhacarya and Pracina-Sahkara-vijaya of An- Academy, 1962. xi, 34 p. andagiri A/S Ananda-Jnana. JOB n.s. 29 (Sept. . Essence of Yoga. 6th ed., rev. and enl. 1960), 113-121. Sivanandanagar, Yoga-Vendanta...