Vaishnavism & Saivism
Krishna Kalale
kkalale1 at SAN.RR.COM
Thu Dec 9 03:13:58 UTC 1999
Dear friends,
I have a question. This is purely out of intellectual curiosity. I would
like to know if there are any literature, either historic or preferably
dialectics between Vaishnavism and Saivism. Particularly I like logical
books that give pramanas or quote appropriate scriptures for support. All
I need are the source books and some scriptural commonality between the
schools that deal with such polemical issues. I have come across a number
of polemic literature between systems of philosophy - Samkhyas, Buddhists,
Jainists, Advaita, Visistadvaita, Dvaita etc. However, I have not come
across polemical books between Vaishnavism and Saivism. The only few works
I know were writtten by "Sri Appayya Diksita", Sri Madhvacharya, Sri
Ramanujacharya, Sri Vedanta Desika etc.regarding this subject. Except Sri
Appayya Diksita, the other authors were from Vaishnava schools. I would
like to know more about Saiva Literature which deals with this subject in
particular. Historically, I am aware of some hostilities. I am not
interested in these issues but just objective academic writings.
There may be some tamil works on this topic, which I am not familiar with.
Personally I prefer sanskrit books since I am not comfortable in tamil.
However, I would like to know tamil works also so that somehow I will get
help from others to understand the view points. I am aware that in some
Alwar pasurams this subject is dealt with. Are there similar works in
Nayanmar's compositions?
thanks
Krishna Kalale
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