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Śāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṅgraha

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By Swami Harshananda

Śāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṅgraha is a well-known and popular work of Appayya Dikṣita[1] It is also known as Siddhāntaleśa-sañgraha. It is a comprehensive survey of the doctrinal interpretations and arguments as formulated by post-Śaṅkara advaitins. Though called as a ‘saṅgraha’[2] it is quite exhaustive. There are four paricchedas or chapters. A very brief summary of the four paricchedas is:

Content of Śāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṅgraha[edit]

First Pariccheda[edit]

It includes the following topics:

  • Nature of Brahman
  • Distinction between īśvara and jīvas
  • Problem of causality of the world
  • Nature and locus of avidyā and māyā
  • Nature and scope of vidhi[3] in respect of Vedāntic study.

Second Pariccheda[edit]

It delineates the following topics:

  • Relative importance of Śruti[4] and pratyakṣa[5]
  • Acceptance of authority of the Śruti
  • Nature of svapna or dream and bhrama or erroneous cognition
  • Dṛṣṭi-sṛṣṭi-vāda
  • Refutation of the theories that a jīva[6] is aṇu[7] and is different from Brahman.

Third Pariccheda[edit]

It includes the following topics:

Fourth Pariccheda[edit]

This section includes the following:

  • Jīvanmukti
  • Dispelling of avidyā or ignorance
  • Permanence of mokṣa or liberation
  • Nature of liberation in the context of ekajīvavāda and anekajivavāda

Commentary on Śāstrasiddhāntaleśasaṅgraha[edit]

The work has an excellent commentary in the name of Kṛālañkāra by Acyutakṛṣṇānanda Tīrtha.


References[edit]

  1. ↑ He lived in A. D. 1520-1592.
  2. ↑ Saṅgraha means an epitomized version.
  3. ↑ Vidhi means injunction.
  4. ↑ Śruti means the scripture.
  5. ↑ Pratyakṣa means direct perception.
  6. ↑ Jīva means individual soul.
  7. ↑ Aṇu means atomic in size.
  8. ↑ Mulā-jñāna means root-nescience
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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