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“Old is Gold!” Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s Way of Referring to Earlier Textual Tradition

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Madhusūdana Sarasvatī wrote several treatises on Advaita philosophy. His magnum opus is the Advaitasiddhi, written in order to reply to the keen objections moved by the Dvaitin Vyāsatīrtha’s Nyāyāmṛta. Advaitasiddhi is verily a turning point into the galaxy of Vedānta, not only as far as its replies are concerned, but also for the reutilization of earlier vedāntic material and its reformulation by means of the highly sophisticated language of the new school of logic. This article is an attempt to contextualize Madhusūdana’s works in a broader context through three looking glasses: (1) the analysis of how Madhusūdana refers to his own works, in order to reconstruct a relative chronology among them; (2) Madhusūdana’s adherence to the tenets of the previous Advaita tradition, how much he is indebted to Vyāsatīrtha, how he quotes him and how he replies to him; (3) Madhusūdana’s acquaintance with other textual traditions, mainly Vyākaraṇa, Pūrva Mīmāṃsā and Nyāya.

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Abbreviations

PM:

Pramāṇamālā

BG:

Bhagavadgītā

BS:

Brahmasūtra

BṛU:

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad

MS:

Madhusūdana Sarasvatī

LC:

Laghucandrikā

VT:

Vyāsa Tīrtha

SŚSS:

Saṃkṣepaśārīrakasārasaṃgraha

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Pellegrini, G. “Old is Gold!” Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s Way of Referring to Earlier Textual Tradition. J Indian Philos 43, 277–334 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9240-9

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