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Nyāya Sūtra – on Philosophical Method

Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: Victor A. van Bijlert

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Nyāya Sūtra – on Philosophical Method

Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: Victor A. van Bijlert

Nyāya Sūtra offers a new English translation of the text ascribed to Akṣapāda, an Indian philosopher who lived around the beginning of the Common Era. The translation is accompanied by the original Sanskrit text and an original commentary. The commentary explains every sūtra separately and identifies the sources of the Nyāya Sūtra. It analyses the way older ideas on epistemology, logic, and soteriology were presented as a new coherent system of thought. The book puts forward the main goal of the Nyāya Sūtra: to define what it considered the basic tenets of a soteriology and how the goal of this soteriology could be reached by rationally applying epistemological and logical methods to finding out the truth. In turn, this truth was thought to lead to the ultimate soteriological goal of freedom from suffering. Showing the coherence of the text and its ultimate goal being soteriological, the new commentary also discusses many scholarly issues regarding the Nyāya Sūtra and its position in the history of Indian philosophy. This book will be of interest to researchers studying Indian philosophy, world philosophies, epistemology, logic, philosophical method, art of debate, soteriology, rationalism, spirituality, Hinduism, Indian religions, and religious studies.

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Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism

By: Victor A. van Bijlert

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Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism

By: Victor A. van Bijlert

This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in the nineteenth century which contributed to the rise of Vedantic Hindu modernity discourse in India. The nineteenth century Hindu modernity, it is argued, sought both individual flourishing and collective emancipation from Western domination. For the first time Hinduism began to be constructed as a religion of sacred texts. In particular, texts belonging to what could be loosely called Vedanta: Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. In this way, the main protagonists of this Vedantist modernity were imitating Western Protestantism, but at the same time also inventing totally novel interpretations of what it meant to be Hindu. The book traces the major ideological paths taken in this cultural-religious reformation from its originator Rammohun Roy up to its last major influence, Rabindranath Tagore. Bringing these two versions of modernity into conversation brings a unique view on the formation of modern Hindu identities. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of religious, Hindu and South Asian studies, as well as religious istory and interreligious dialogue.

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1000169979

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Nyāya Sūtra – on Philosophical Method

Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: Victor A. van Bijlert

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Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary

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Nyāya Sūtra – on Philosophical Method

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Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

Nyāya Sūtra – on Philosophical Method

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