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INTRODUCTION

Imay be remodered in English by the expression (215-171071iऽ7. Accord ing to this view, there is only one absolute reality of a positive 1ike “4duity07४, ' and teach the negation of the world (#7420)८blळ04) as the great truth of Advaitism, which can be learnt only from Vedantic texts and not from any other source; the realisation of Brahman as the only absolute reality brings about the removal of nescience (auidyariurt); the negation of the world and the removal of mescience are negative realities and do not come into confict with the monism of Advaita, which excludes only a second positive reality (6h400) and is quite compatible with the recognition of a negative reality other than Brahman, in the form of Pra92८bhau in view of the necessity for recognising 'such negative realities, the scope of the Advaita doctrine should be restricted to positive entities other than Brahman and should not be understood as excluding certain negative realities.; and the aduata taught by the Vedanta texts reduces itself, in this manner 20at८, this view is contrasted sharply with the uncompromising type of strict aduita, which excludes thoroughly the reality of every category, positive as well as negative, other than Brahman and Dwaita classics, associates bl८uaduita anywhere in his Bral71asiddhi, a.'careful scrutiny of that work in the light of the references in later Vedantic works to to support bl404duita and maintain it as a sound doctrine quite in harmony with the trend of the Vedanta, more especially with the anti-dualistic texts in negative form. In the Bral7:40-Ka22 * the course of the statement of an objection and, while refuting the objection, implicitly accepts the reasonablemess of blau८dualita If this were all that could be gathered from the Brah74asiddha concerning bl८04d07it८, it would not be unfair to say that the text of that work does not adequately warrant the specific ascription

of bhauduat८ to Mandama in Vedantic tradition. In some places


1 A.S.N.S. P., 1917, p. 467, 1ines [०, and 16; A. Rat. Ra. N.S.P. 1917, p. 18,

1ine 4, p. 22, 1ine 2; L. Ca. N.S.P. 197, p. 326, 1ines r2 to 23; Gu. Ca. No. 75

  • N.M. Kumb. Pari, , p. 198, 1ine , Par, 4, p. 1, 1ine 4.
  • Bra. Sid, Part I, p. 4, para. 2 to p. 6, line 6
  • Br. Sid, Part 1, p. 119, verse r०6; and p. 121, 1ast 1ine