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A HAND-BOOKOF

HINDU PANTHEISM.

THE PANCHADASIOF

SREEMUT VIDYARANYA SWAMI.TRANSLATED WITH COPIOUS ANNOTATIONSBY

NANDALAL DHOLE,Translator,

L.M.S.,Gfc.

"Vedantasara,"

SECOND EDITION.IK

TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. L

CALCUTTA

:

HEERALAL DHOLE, MUSJID BARI STREET,SOCIETY FOR THE RESUSCITATION OF INDIAN LITERATURE,65/2,

BEADON STREET.

1899.All rights reserved.

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PRINTED BY H."Elysium Press"

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PREFACE.FOR oneso deservedly reputed,

as the author of the~in the

PANCHADASI, which holds a high placeVedantic Philosophy,it is

realm of

but proper, that a short notice of his life and writings should go along with its English version. But in the matter of biography, there never was a time, noris it

even now the case,India

when any

attention

was paidof genius,

to

it.

boasts

of a literature

which

is

unique; every department of learning bears the stamporiginality,

thoughts. spent in thus enriching the Sanskrit, and opening up a world of new ideas and new philosophies, were allowedto

sublime

deep research, and profound and Unfortunately the lives, that were

drop

in

time

into

the

gulf

of

eternity,

without

leaving any trace of their struggles and sufferings, their joys and pleasures, beyond the simple fact that they lived and died. Suppression of self or egoism was areligious principle with

them

;

and

this

may

to a certain

extent account for the lack of authentic records of thelivesof our

great

men and good.fact,

And,

if

to this

be

added the certaintatiously,

that they lived quite

unosten

means, barely enough to very the satisfy simple wants of the flesh (already reduced to starvation limits) without that artificial halo, which;

with

slender

encircles the

mushroom authors

of the

day

:

it

will

be

evident that the

incident of such lives

as theirs

would

neither be interesting nor profitable. that could puff in those days ; the art

Wethe

had no press

of printing

wasof a

yet

in

the

womb

of distant futurity

;

renown

scholar was confined in the narrow circle of his nativity,

2

PREFACE.solitary

where a

found engaged in imparting, instruction to them. His pupils, gradually spread his fame and worth for, afterreceiving, and hein;

student would be

finishing their course, they turn intoset themselves

new

up as professors.

In this

pastures, and way, the learn

ed scholar draws pupils from remote places, who copytheir teachers manuscriptsin

and writings, and, are taught them. Under circumstances so repressive and trying it

is a matter of congratulation that, what is yet left us, is a standing monument, imperishable like time itself, and

With the paucity of materials for a suitable biography, so much of fiction has been trans planted on it that we had one time thought of giving up the idea but recollecting that a blind uncle is betterundyinglike glory.;

than none,

we begin our

task.

Madhava, Madhavarya, Madhvacharya, and Madhavamatya were the names by which Vidyarana Swamiused to pass prior to his turning into a recluse. He was born in the fourteenth century of the Christian era It appears that Vijayanagar was the at Golconda.capitalof

Bukkka

I,

whose familylittleis

priest

and ministerearlylife.

our author was.

Very

known

of his

His parents, as may naturally be expected from their connection with the reigning family, were in affluent circumstances and very highly respected. His fatherwas, as he himself speaks of him in his commentary on Parasar s Law Book, Narayan of good renown," and"

mother,

Sreemutty.(the

He had two more brothers,of the

called

Sayan*

great Commentator

Rig Veda)* and

Unfortunately some Oriental scholars confound him with hii

brother, the subject of this

memoir.

and Madhav, had

their separate

Both the brothers, Sayan Commentaries on the Vedas.

H.D.

PREFACE.Somenath.wrote

They belonged to the Bharadwaj Gotra and Bodhvayani Shakha of the Black Yajur Veda. He

many

works,

all

of

which attest

his

learning and

is Sankaracharya, everywhere recognised as an authority on the doctrine of Non-du

erudition.

Next

to

he

ality. Medicine, Grammar, Astrology, besides writing Commentaries on the Four Vedas known

He

wrote on

by the name of Madhavaprokash\ Commentaries on

Brahma Mimansa or Adhikaran Mala Commen tary on Parasar s Law Book Anumitiprakash Brahmathe; ;

Gita, or a critical analysis of the doctrine of non-duality based on the Sruti, and a review of Madhava,

and Sankarmentary

s

views.

Here

also he has

added

Ramanuja his com;

for elucidating the text,;

Jwanmuktiviveka

and called Prakashika Drigdrishvamveka and the gloss of:

Aparokshyanuvutt. His Sarvadarshan Sangraha treats of fifteen systems as follow (i) Charvaka-darshna,(2)

Buddha-darshana;;

(3)

Arhata-darshna;

;

(4)

Rama;

nuja-darshana(7)

(5)

Puranprajna;

(6)

Nakulis-pasupat

Shaiva;(11)

(8)

Pratyabhijna

(9)

Raseshavar;

;

(10);

Akshapada; (12) Jaimini (13) Panini (14) Sankhya; and (15) Patanjal. Among his minor works are Jaiminya Naymala, Acharmadhava and Sa n ka rdigbijaya.

Aulik;

profitable nor interesting to enter about the various anecdotes current about Madhava s snpernatural gifts, For instance, it is said, that with a view of the propitiating Gayatri Devi he had collected several learned Brahmins from various parts of the country, and on the auspicious occasion

It

is

neither

into details

regularly

commencedsuccessful in

the

Gayatripurashcharana, but he was un meeting her. This made him indifferent to

worldly enjoyments, and ultimately turned him into a re-

PREFACE.

Then Gayatri insisted upon him to ask for a boon, and Madhava requested her to cause a shower of -gold in This rich. the Karnatic, so that every one may becomecluse.

was

actually fulfilled.

Later

in life

he settled himselfof

in

the Sringeri Math founded by Sankaracharya he became the reputed head. Here his last work

which

Pancha

dasi was written, but as he didit,

not

live

long to finish

the work waslatter of

left to his

wrote thefifteen

books

Guru Bharatitirtha Muni, who nine books and thus completed the which the Panchadasi is made.*N. D.

*

And

so

it

did happen that withthe

this

short Biograph.calof the

English translator Sketch of the author, He died in his 47* year on the I 4Ul of Nature. tribute his paid all who knew of March, 1887 at 5 -3O.A. M,, deeply regretted by,.

Panchadasi

him.

H. Dt

THE PANCHADASL

SECTIONSALUTATIONS be tois

I.

my GURU SREE SHANKARANANDA whoSupremeSelf

non-different from the

and whoandits

is

the chief

resort for the destruction of infatuity

attendant evilsineffable miserywill, like to

derived from conceitevery

and

egoity, leading to

being acting under the influence of freethe dog, crocodile

those fearful animalswater.2.

and others

living

in

Love and reverenceand enable

to the said

GURU

will

produce athe

RealJ from the non-real objective world together with the elements J of which it is made. This I proceed to consider.pure heart,distinguish3.

the individual to

Tois

establish the identity or oneness of the Everlasting

IntelligenceSelf,it

and

Bliss

PARABRAHMAandbliss.

with the Individuated

necessary that the latter

must also have the same

everlasting intelligencedifference of

With

this view, the

non-

knowledgeis

as helps the individual in the

cogni

tion of several objects

being cited here.

We

distinguish

a

2

PANCHADASI.its

thing by

name,

for instance a

equally bangle shape determines their individuality. And if this be omitted, the remaining gold is one in 4. In the same way, the Individual both, yet each has its name.Spiritis

are

golden earring and a golden derived from gold, the difference in their

one with the Universalwhichif

:

the difference consists in

their

associates,

left

out, there

remains only one