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JUST RELEASED by joint publication of Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry, India


An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation : Bhaṭṭa Rāmakaha’s Paramokanirāsakārikāvtti,
a commentary on Sadyojyotih's refutation of twenty conceptions of the liberated state (mok
a).


For the first time critically edited, translated into English and annotated by Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma,
Collection Indologie n˚ 122, Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013, 508 p.

Language: Sanskrit, English. 900 Rs (38 €). ISBN (IFP): 978-81-8470-195-1. ISBN (EFEO): 978-2-85539-130-4.


This book presents a short philosophical treatise in which twenty rival theories of the liberated state (moka) are introduced and countered, and a long, discursive commentary that explores and develops the arguments that the treatise advances or implies. The original treatise comprises fifty-nine Sanskrit verses composed by Sadyojyotih (c. 675–725 AD), the earliest named Śaiva philosopher of the Mantramārga of whom works survive. The commentator, Bhaṭṭa Rāmakanha (c. 950–1000 AD), was a Kashmirian whose writings systematised the doctrines of the classical Śaiva Siddhānta, for some centuries the dominant school of tantric Śaivism.


Presented here is a first critical edition of these interlinked works and a richly annotated English translation. A lightly annotated introduction lays out clearly the ideas that the edited texts expound. Their study casts light not only on the history of Śaiva thought, but also on a number of religio-philosophical doctrines for which little other testimony survives.


Keywords:
Liberation (moka), Śaiva siddhānta, Indian philosophy, Hindu theology, Śaivism, Sanskrit philology, Sadyojyotih, Rāmakanha


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