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Book SynopsisSanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu's Vimsatika' versus Kumarila's Niralambanavada' illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramanasastra) by introducing new translations of two Sanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other's tradition of thought and practice. In the third century CE, Vasubandhu, a Buddhist philosopher-monk, proposed that the entire world of lived experience is a matter of mind only through his
Vimsatika (Twenty Verses). In the seventh century CE, Kumarila, a Hindu philosopher-priest, composed
Niralambanavada (Non-Sensory Limit Debate) to establish the objective reality of objects by refuting Vasubandhu's claim that objects experienced in waking life are not different from objects experienced in dreams. Kumarila rigorously employs formal rules and regulations of Indian logic and debate to demonstrate that Vasubandhu's assertion is totally irrational and incoherent.
Vimsatika ranks among the world's mos
Table of ContentsContents: Classical Indian Philosophy – Vimśatikā and Auto-Commentary in Text-Historical Context – Translation of Vimśatikā and Auto-Commentary – Nirālambanavāda in Text–Historical Context – Translation of Nirālambanavāda – The Verdict.
