Asiatica Association

An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation - Paramokṣanirāsakārikāvṛtti of Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha

24 mar 2014, archived in books

We have received the book by Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, and S. L. P. Anjaneya Sarma (eds. and transl.), An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation: Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha's Paramokṣanirāsakārikāvṛtti, A Commentary on Sadyojyotiḥ's Refutation of Twenty Conceptions of the Liberated State (mokṣa), Institut Français de Pondichéry/Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013 (Collection Indologie - 122). 

This is the first critical edition of a short philosphical treatise in 59 Sanskrit verses on twenty rival teories of librated state (mokṣa) composed by Sadyojyotiḥ's (c. 675-725 AD), its long commentary by Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaṇṭha's (c. 950-1000 AD), along with an annotated translation of both works, and an introduction.

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