This book deals with the main doctrines of Advaita as set forth in the writings of Anandabodha. Anandabodha is a great name in the history of Advaita Vedanta. He is not only a metaphysician of great insight but also a dialectician of great skill and ability. He is credited with the authorship of four works on Advaita of which. “Nyayamakaranda†is the most important. He was a source of inspiration to some of the greatest dialecticians of not only the Sankara school but of the other schools as well. He does not deal with Advaita in all its details that are of fundamental character. The first and foremost task of the Advaitin is to refute difference and establish identity. This Anandabodha does with consummate skill. Anandabodha next seeks to establish the advaitin’s theory of error, viz. anirvacaniyakhyati, by a dialectical criticism of the other main theories of error, viz. akhyati, anythakhyati, atmakhyati and asatkhyati. But what is most original and suggestive in Anandabodha is his interpretation of avidya and avidyanivrtti.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR E.I. Warrier
Dr. E.I. Warrier (b. 1922), an M.A., Litt., Ph.D. of the Madras University, was a student of the distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Padmabhushan Dr. T.M.P. Mahadevan who in the closing years of his life was a National Professor of India. Dr. Warrier began his academic career as a Tutor in Philosophy and rose up steadily to the position of the Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy in the University of Calicut. He was also Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the same University. He has written books both in English and in Malayalam and published a number of learned papers. He was also associated with a number of Universities in India, particularly of the South, as a paper-setter and examiner. He has also the privilege of evaluating a number of doctoral theses of these Universities. He has successfully guided the research work of a number of students for their doctoral degree. He was also the Chairman of the Pot-Graduate Board of Studies in Philosophy in the Universities of Kerala and Calicut and also Chairman of the Board of Examiners in M.A. Philosophy of these Universities.
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