Nyayakusumanjali: Rational Enquiry into the Existence of God

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NOTE: I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO FIND THE ACTUAL TEXT ONLINE, BUT WAS

FORTUNATE TO FIND A BOOK THAT HAD A CHAPTER ON THIS TOPIC. IT WAS

TAKEN FROM A BOOK CALLED HINDU THEOLOGY, TRANSLATED BY PEREIRA

PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY 1976.

 

"The fifth, the last chapter of the text, advances the positive

proofs for the existence of God."

 

Nyayakusumanjali : Hindu Rational Enquiry into the Existence of God--

Interpretative Exposition of Udayanacarya's Auto Commentary with

translations of Karikas/Bhaswati Sinha. 1999, xiv, 343 p., ISBN 81-

7305-151-8.

 

Contents: Preface. I. Stabaka - I: 1. God--the controller of Adrsta.

II. Stabaka - II: 1. God--the author of the Vedas. III. Stabka -

III: 1. No proof for non-existence of God. IV. Stabaka - IV: 1. God--

the substratum of valid knowledge. V. Stabaka - V: 1. Proofs for the

existence of God.

 

"Nyayakusumanjali is a classic work on the logical enquiry into the

existence of God by Udayanacarya, a Hindu philosopher-theologian of

the 10th - 11th century. Exhaustive interpretative exposition of

Udayana's auto-commentary has been a demanding necessity, owing to

the difficult nature of the work involving terse logical subtleties,

for the students of Hindu theology.

 

"The text has been divided into five chapters. In the first four

chapters objections advanced by the opponents against the existence

of God have been analysed and refuted, and the proponent's

standpoint is stated. The fifth, the last chapter of the text,

advances the positive proofs for the existence of God. In the

translation of the karikas and in the interpretative exposition of

Udayana's auto-commentary main emphasis is laid on bringing out the

contents of the text, some of which is known but most of which is

hidden behind the text, due to the difficult nature of expression,

analysis and methodology followed in the composition of the work."

(jacket)

 

[bhaswati Sinha is on the faculty of the Department of Religious

Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala.}

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