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Thanks for the info.

 

I do have Mesquita's other book you have mentioned. In fact, there

is a rebuttal on that book of Mesquita and can be downloaded from

here ;

 

http://www.dvaita.net/pdf/papers/mesquita.pdf

 

Regards,

Srinivas

 

 

 

INDOLOGY , Marion Rastelli

<marion.rastelli wrote:

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> Unfortunately, an English translation of this book is not (yet?)

available.

> A related book of Roque Mesquita has been published also in

English:

>

> Mesquita, Roque :

> Madhva's unknown literary sources : some observations. - 1.

> publ. . - New Delhi : Aditya Prakashan , 2000 . - 197

> S. . - ISBN: 81-7742-028-3

>

> Yours,

> Marion Rastelli

>

> Srinivas Kotekal schrieb:

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> >

> > Is there any English translation available for this book?

> >

> > INDOLOGY <INDOLOGY%

40>,

> > Marion Rastelli <marion.rastelli@>

> > wrote:

> > >

> > > We are pleased to announce a new publication of the Sammlung De

> > Nobili:

> > >

> > > Roque Mesquita, Madhvas Zitate aus den Puranas und dem

Mahabharata.

> > Eine

> > > analytische Zusammenstellung nicht identifizierbarer

Quellenzitate in

> > > Madhvas Werken nebst Übersetzung und Anmerkungen. 2007,

Hardcover

> > 643p.

> > > EUR 68.

> > >

> > > online order: www.univie.ac.at/istb/sdn

> > >

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[Guest guest]

Srinivas Kotekal wrote:

> I do have Mesquita's other book you have mentioned. In fact, there

> is a rebuttal on that book of Mesquita and can be downloaded from

> here ;

>

> http://www.dvaita.net/pdf/papers/mesquita.pdf

 

This appeared as a review in a Swiss journal:

 

Rao, Shrisha and Sharma, B.N.K., " Madhva's Unknown Sources: a Review, "

in: Etudes asiatiques / Asiatische Studien 62 (2003), pp. 181-194.

 

What neither www.dvaita.net nor that PDF file mentions, however (and

this says something about the scholarly seriousness, honesty and

intellectual openness, or lack of these, of that website), is that

Mesquita's rejoinder appeared in exactly that same issue of that journal:

 

Mesquita, Roque, " Rejoinder: Madhva's Unknown Sources, " in: Etudes

asiatiques / Asiatische Studien 62 (2003), pp. 195-212.

 

For committed believing theologians in the tradition, the " rebuttal " may

look like one, but it hardly does more than repeat the apologetics that

have been voiced over a considerable time already: that the source texts

which Madhva quotes have been lost, or that they actually still exist

somewhere (or 'have been found in Kashmir', according to one rumour

which I have heard). But the fact is that those quotes simply are not

found anywhere. No evidence, as Mesquita elaborately and politely says

in his rejoinder. (To further strengthen his case, he brought out that

latest book, which lists all the dubious quotes. Very openly and

admirably scholarly: he is actually inviting his critics to demonstrate

where the quotes can be found!) Furthermore, Mesquita's systemic

argumentation for the existence of the " unknown sources " has been

conveniently ignored by the two critics.

 

All that a serious critic needs to do now is to take up Mesquita's

latest book and prove, with full bibliographical data, that all those

texts, and all those passages that supposedly are found in known texts,

actually exist. It would be of great interest to see somebody do that.

 

Meanwhile, the " rebuttal " is not more than an act of faith within the

framework of conventional Mâdhva theology -- interesting in itself, as

an expression of present-day intra-denominational theological thinking

and believing, but it cannot be considered an Indological rebuttal of

Mesquita's findings.

 

Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos

Deputy director, Department of Asian Studies

Head, Institute of Indology and Tibetology

Munich University

Germany