[Advaita-l] Advaita Polemics Kind Attn. Sri Venkataraghavan

[Rajaram Venkataramani]

If we leave the counter arguments and their counters out, are there any
unique arguments other than saptavidha anupapatti? If all arguments are
reducible to these seven classes plus or minus a few, then it is done.
Advaitins are indebted to Sri Ramanuja for making the defence of Advaita
from attacks by opponents easy 😉 l was going through Saiva views but they
are hard to understand due to Tamizh poetry format.

Kind regards,
Rajaram Venkataramani

On Sun, 6 Aug 2023, 07:25 Krishna Kashyap, <kkashyap2011 at gmail.com> wrote:

> as far as I know, such a book does not exist.
> I tried to assemble the complete arguments for just "upadesha anupapatti".
> I had time only to look at some portions of "Shata Dushani" and "Tattva
> MuktA kalApa" of Vedanta Desika for this and "Shata Bhushani" of N.S
> Anantha Krishna Shastri to understand his views. I could not even complete
> this task.
>
> There are about 100 pages in Sanskrit regarding just this one topic. This
> includes 30 to 40 pages from "paramartha bhushanam" and another 20 pages
> from "paramartha prakasika".
> This is just the visistadvaita portion of the work.  I have no idea where
> to find all the details from Madhva-sampradaya works.
>
> I heard from an Advaitin, that even serious study of "Shata Bhushani" is
> not done among smartha samprdaya people nowadays. They focus more on
> Advaita Siddhi rather than this work of N.S Anantha Krishna Shastri.
>
> I think someone can get easily 2 or 3 Phds for just this
> saptavidha anupapatti from different points of view (trimatas).
>
>
> *Best Regards,*
>
> *Krishna Kashyap*
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 10:14 PM Rajaram Venkataramani <
> rajaramvenk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks. As mentioned in my original email, this book  covers the
>> arguments from Visishtadvaitins and Asvaita response. I was looking for a
>> compendium that brings together in one book all the objections from
>> Visishtadvaitins, Dwaitins, Saivas and others.
>>
>>
>> https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Seven_Great_Untenables.html?id=QWcgAxQnSAwC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Rajaram Venkataramani
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023, 19:09 Krishna Kashyap, <kkashyap2011 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/vedanta-without-maya-debate-on-saptavidha-anupapatti-nak677/
>>>
>>> I found this.
>>>
>>> *Best Regards,*
>>>
>>> *Krishna Kashyap*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 6:05 AM Rajaram Venkataramani via Advaita-l <
>>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear scholars,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a good compilation of arguments against Advaita by
>>>> Bhedabhedavadins, Visishtadvaitins, Dwaitins, Saivas and others -
>>>> anything
>>>> other than John Grimes book on saptavidha anupapatti? Sri Subrahmanian
>>>> suggested that Sri Venkataraghavan may have that as he is an expert in
>>>> Advaita Siddhi. Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Rajaram Venkataramani
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