History of the Dvaita School of Vedānta and Its Literature

Download or read book History of the Dvaita School of Vedānta and Its Literature written by B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a panoramic view of the creative, expository, interpretive, dialectic, polemical, didactic and devotional phases of Dvaita philosophy, and its literature with a clear chronological setting of literary, historical and epigraphic materials. Written in lucid style it presents a vigorous and sparkling historical exposition of the mighty currents of Realistic Theism, originating in the Vedic and post-Vedic sources of Madhva philosophy finding their culmination in the Dvaita Vedanta of Madhvacarya, and the long line of his great commentators and followers, over a period of seven centuries from the thirteenth century onwards.