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The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II - Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors (Hardcover)
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The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II - Somananda's Sivadrsti and His Philosophical Interlocutors (Hardcover)
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This is a sequel to a volume published in 2011 by OUP under the
title The Ubiquitous Siva: Somananda's Sivadrsti and his Tantric
Interlocutors. The first volume offered an introduction, critical
edition, and annotated translation of the first three chapters of
the Sivadrsti of Somananda, along with its principal commentary,
the Sivadrstivrtti, written by Utpaladeva. It dealt primarily with
Saiva theology and the religious views of competing esoteric
traditions. The present volume presents the fourth chapter of the
Sivadrsti and Sivadrstivrtti and addresses a fresh set of issues
that engage a distinct family of opposing schools and authors of
mainstream Indian philosophical traditions. In this fourth chapter,
Somananda and Utpaladeva engage logical and philosophical works
that exerted tremendous influence in the Indian subcontinent in its
premodernity. Among the authors and schools addressed by Somananda
in this chapter are the Buddhist Epistemologists, and Dharmakirti
in particular; the Hindu school of hermeneutics, i.e., the Mimamsa;
the Hindu realist schools of the logic- and debate-oriented Nyaya
and their ontologically-oriented partners, the Vaisesika; and the
Hindu, dualist Samkhya and Yoga schools. Throughout this chapter,
Somananda endeavors to explain his brand of Saivism
philosophically. Somananda challenges his philosophical
interlocutors with a single over-arching argument: he suggests that
their views cannot cohere-they cannot be explained logically-unless
their authors accept the Saiva non-duality for which he advocates.
The argument he offers, despite its historical influence, remains
virtually unstudied. The Ubiquitous Siva Volume II offers the first
English translation of Chapter Four of the Sivadrsti and
Sivadrstivrtti along with an introduction and critical edition.
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