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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION furnishes to the advaitin a very powerful argument by which be could easily disarm his MImarisaka opponent of the Bhatta as well as the Prabhakara school and render nugatory the Mimamsakas endeavour to show that the Upanisads would be purposeless unless their teachings could be subordinated to the injunctions of the Karma or Upasand sections of the Veda. After showing in his Vidhivina why istasidhawata should be recognised as the vidhyartha, Mandana finds it easy to show in his Brahminsidd that the Niyoga of the Prabhakaras would turn out to be an. unmeaning shibboleth, unless it comes to be equated w+ with stasidhamatna and thateven on the view that the validity of 5astras rests upon their bringing about a fruitful activity and not merely upon giving correct information about truth, the Upanisadic texts could be maintained to be purposeful and valid, inasmuch as they lead to the highest kind of praurtti sy in the form of meditation on the Absolute Brahman as the only reality, such 4busand being indispensable for transforming the indirect know ledge of Brahman arising from the Mahamakyas into direct Brahman realisation and such pravrtti being directed towards the highest end of human endeavour, viz., Brahman-realisation concomitant with complete liberation from bondage (maki. The Sphbasida is a spirited defence of the sphata theory of Vaiyakaranas, as expounded by Bhartrhari , and meets the objections advanced against the pda theory by Kumarilabhatta and Prabhakara. Mandana's view is that the siddhanta of the MImahsakas would in no manner be prejudiced by the acceptance of the sphota theory, but would gain immensely on the contrary, through that theory, by finding

its ultimate fulfilment in the absolute monism of eduita. Mandana uses rather strong language p in the second and concluding verses


A Bra, sid., Part 1, p. 15, lines 1 and 2 and 1 ines 3 to 5

Bra. Sid., Part I, p. 159, lines go to T 3.

sph. Sid., Mad. Univ skt. S. N०.6, verse . See commentary on the expression and see verse 36.

Sph. Sid, See verse 2, p

दुर्विदग्धैरवसिते दर्शने पदनाम् ।
यथागमं यथाप्रज्ञे न्यायलेशो निदर्यते ॥

and see p. 464.

सान्द्रविद्यातिमिरपटलाच्छादितान्तढ :ी ये
दृष्टि मन्दा वरमुनिमते कुर्वते साधमानम् ।
तेभ्योऽविद्यातिमिरपटलोष्ठेखिनी संहितेयं
स्पष्टन्यायैर्घटितसुमतिर्दर्शिता स्फोटसिद्धिः ।।