N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya;
associate editor S. Lakshminarasimham, Regards sur
l'Asie du Sud / South Asian Perspectives n˚ 4, Institut
Français de Pondichéry, xxi, 664 p.,
2015.
Language:
Sanskrit.
1200 Rs (52 €). ISBN :
978-81-8470-204-0.
The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya
of Khaṇḍadeva (17th c.) belongs to the Bhāṭṭa
school of Mīmāṃsā. It deals mainly with the meaning of roots
and suffixes, and their role in conveying the meaning of the
sentence. Though this is a topic of grammar, it is widely
discussed in Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā works as well. The Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya is
divided into two parts. The first part begins with the
definition of dharma,
the main concept of Mīmāṃsā, and then deals at length with
the meaning of injunctional suffix (liṅ), refuting the
views of logicians and establishing bhāvanā (creative
energy) as the main meaning of the sentence. In the second
part, the author discusses the meaning of nominal suffixes (sup), quoting
relevant rules from Pāṇinian grammar. Though Khaṇḍadeva's interpretation of Pāṇinian rules deviates from the grammatical
tradition in some cases, he tries to prove that there is no
violation of grammar by the Mīmāṃsakas.
Given the complexity of the Bhāṭṭatantrarahasya,
Prof. Ramanuja Tatacharya presents it here with his own
commentary, the Sāraprakāśikā.
Also included are an index of the Pāṇinian rules, an index of the kārikās (citations) and a bibliography.
Keywords: Mīmāṃsā, Bhāṭṭa school, commentary
About the commentator
Professor N.S. Ramanuja
Tatacharya is one of the senior authorities in the
fields of Nyāya, Vyākaraṇa, Pūrvamīmāṃsā and Uttaramīmāṃsā.
Since retiring as Vice-Chancellor of the Rashtriya Sanskrit
Vidyapeetha of Tirupati, he has been associated with the
French Institute of Pondicherry as Honorary Professor. His
profound scholarship has earned him many awards, including
the Certificate of Honour for Proficiency in Sanskrit
conferred by the President of India and the Chevalier de la
Légion d’Honneur awarded by the French government. He has
been awarded the titles of Tarkavācaspati and
Śāstraratnākara
by the Head of the Sri
Raghavendra Swamy Matha and the Sri Vedanta Desika
Sampradaya Sabha, respectively. He is also the
recipient of the Ramakrishna Dalmia Srivani Alankara Award
of the Ramakrishna Dalmia Srivani Nyas, and the Vachaspati
Puraskar Award of the K. K. Birla Foundation.
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