The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha. Madhava
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Madhava
The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha
Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664110893
Table of Contents
THE PÁŚUPATA SYSTEM OF NAKULÍŚA.
THE PRATYABHIJNA-DARSANA, OR RECOGNITIVE SYSTEM.
THE RASEŚVARA-DARŚANA OR MERCURIAL SYSTEM. [153]
THE VAIŚESHIKA OR AULÚKYA DARŚANA. [154]
THE AKSHAPÁDA (OR NYÁYA) DARŚANA.
ON THE UPÁDHI (cf. supra , pp. 7, 8, 174, 194) .
THE PROLOGUE.
1. I worship Śiva, the abode of eternal knowledge, the storehouse of supreme felicity; by whom the earth and the rest were produced, in him only has this all a maker.
2. Daily I follow my Guru Sarvajña-Vishṇu, who knows all the Ágamas, the son of Śárṅgapáṇi, who has gone to the further shore of the seas of all the systems, and has contented the hearts of all mankind by the proper meaning of the term Soul.
3. The synopsis of all the systems is made by the venerable Mádhava mighty in power, the Kaustubha-jewel of the milk-ocean of the fortunate Sáyaṇa.
4. Having thoroughly searched the Śástras of former teachers, very hard to be crossed, the fortunate Sáyaṇa-Mádhava[5] the lord has expounded them for the delight of the good. Let the virtuous listen with a mind from which all envy has been far banished; who finds not delight in a garland strung of various flowers?
FOOTNOTES:
[5] Dr. A. C. Burnell, in his preface to his edition of the Vaṃśa-Bráhmaṇa, has solved the riddle of the relation of Mádhava and Sáyaṇa. Sáyaṇa is a pure Draviḍian name given to a child who is born after all the elder children have died. Mádhava elsewhere calls Sáyaṇa his "younger brother," as an allegorical description of his body, himself being the eternal soul. His use of the term Sáyaṇa-Mádhavaḥ here (not the dual) seems to prove that the two names represent the same person. The body seems meant by the Sáyaṇa of the third śloka. Máyaṇa was the father of Mádhava, and the true reading may be śríman-máyaṇa.
CHAPTER I.
THE CHÁRVÁKA SYSTEM.