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[purushottama bilimoria]

I am no scholar of Julius Lipner's heights (recently appointed Director 
of Hinduja Research Centre on Ancient India at Cambridge) but I could add 
the following items, papers I have worked on on the Mimamsa doctrine of 
apaurusheya (critically against Nyaya and Vedanta watering down of the genuinely 'authorless' 
aspect. I find nothing incoherent, by the way, in this theory and it is 
consistent with Mimamsa commitment to the autonomous efficacy of rituals 
and mantras. (Diacritcs ellided).

- "On the Idea of Authorless Revelation (Apauruseya)"
In Roy W Perrett (ed.) INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, Dordrecht: Kluwer 
Academic Publishers, 1989, pp. 143-166.

- " Hindu Doubts about God - Toward a Mimamsa Deconstruction",
INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY December 1990, vol 30, no 4, pp 
481-499.

- " Authorless Vocie, Tradition an Authority in the Mimamsa: Reflections 
in Cross-cultural Hermeneutics",
NAGOYA STUDIES IN INDIAN CULTUR AND BUDDHISM- SAMBHASA, 18 (May 1995) pp 
1-24;

- " Fusion of Disparate Horizons" (Introduction)
in, P. Bilimoria (ed.) J N MOHANTY ESSAYS IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY, Oxford 
University Press, Delhi, 1993/ 1995.
.[{THis is my critique of Prof Mohanty's position on Tradition.]

- See also Stephen Phillips Review of my SABDAPRAMANA: WORD & KNOWLEDGE 
in PHILOSOPHY EAST & WEST, APril 1995 (Issue devoted to Asian and 
Comparative Philosophy in Australia, which also carries an Introduction 
by yours truly).

last but not least, my article written with Prof Bimal K Matilal, 
"Pramana Epistemology - Some Recent Developments", in CONTEMPORARY 
PHILSOPHY (Ed. Guttorm Floistad) vol & Asian Philosophy, Kluwer, 1993.

Hope this helps.

Purushottama Bilimoria



On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, Mani Varadarajan wrote:

> Narahari Rao writes:
> > I would very much like
> >  to know whether there is any research carried on about the implications of
> >  saying that vedas are 'apaurusheya'.
> 
> This work is not a compendium on the subject, but Julius Lipner's
> "The Face of Truth: A Study of Meaning and Metaphysics in the 
> Vedantic Theology of Ramanuja" discusses how Indian philosophers
> understand the "apauruSheyatva" of the Veda.
> 
> Mani
>  
>