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About the Book Sankaracharya’s immortal Hymn Dakshina murti stotra andDakshinamurti Upanishad and the two works of Suresvaracharya’s Manasollasa andPranava Vartika, herein epitomise the whole Vedanta Doctrine, as expounded bythe two authors in their commentaries on the Upanishads, form a goodintroduction to a study of the subject. The author, Mahadeva Sastri, in hisintroduction to Sures’varacharya’s Manasollasa, refers to variousphilo-sophical systems of his day, treating briefly of the origin, methods, andfundamental tenets of the several systems of Vedanta it refers to, so that thereader may have a comprehensive view of the whole range of Indian philo-sophy,at whose summit, towering high above all, stands Vedanta, the pinnacle of Aryanthought. The reader will also be struck with the catholicity of the teaching,which is not addressed to any particular class of people nor contains anyreference to distinctions of caste and religious order. While concisely statingthe process by which the oneness of Self and the unreality of all else isestablished. Manasollasa is more original and telling than any of the latermanuals which state the doctrine as derived from the expositions of the twoeminent leaders of the Advaita-Vedanta school of thought. Suresvaracharya’sexposition of the Vedanta Doctrine is often very original and is throughoutmarked with such thoroughness, precision, and clearness that it forms a veryvaluable supplement to the teachings of the Upanishads; and its authority onall knotty points acknowledged with due reverence and submission by all theAdvaitic writers of later days.Sankaracharya’s immortal Hymn Dakshinamurti stotra andDakshinamurti Upanishad and the two works of Suresvaracharya’s Manasollasa andPranava Vartika, herein epitomise the whole Vedanta Doctrine, as expounded bythe two authors in their commentaries on the Upanishads, form a goodintroduction to a study of the subject. The author, Mahadeva Sastri, in hisintroduction to Sures’varacharya’s Manasollasa, refer to various existingphilosophical systems, treating briefly of the origin, methods, and fundamentaltenets of the several systems of Vedanta it refers to, so that the reader mayhave a comprehensive view of the whole range of Indian Philosophy, at whosesummit, towering high above all, stands Vedanta, the pinnacle of Indianthought. Contains the Original Sanskrit text of Manasollasa with the commentaryand meaning in English with the Pramana Vartika and Dakshinamoorti Upanishad.
