Siddhitraya

Siddhitraya
Painting of Vishnu, regarded to be the Supreme Being in this work, accompanied by his consort, Lakshmi. Ravi Varma Press, Malavli.
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ReligionHinduism
AuthorYamunacharya
LanguageSanskrit

The Siddhitraya (Sanskrit: सिद्धित्रयम्, romanized: Siddhitrayam) is a Sanskrit treatise written in the 10th century by the Hindu philosopher Yamunacharya.[1] Regarded to be the largest and the most prominent work of Yamunacharya,[2] the Siddhitraya was an important foundational text for the philosophy of Vishishtadvaita.[3] It offers refutations of the philosophical positions of Advaita and other Hindu schools.[4]

The work consists of three sections, expounding the author's positions on the "three demonstrations": the concepts of ātmasiddhi (demonstration of individual self), īśvarasiddhi (demonstration of God), and saṁvitsiddhi (demonstration of reality in the empirical world).[5][6] All three sections of the work are regarded to be incomplete.[7]

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  2. ^ Dasgupta, Surendranath (1991). A History of Indian Philosophy. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 98. ISBN 978-81-208-0414-2.
  3. ^ Chari, S. M. S. (1 January 2018). Vaisnavism: Its Philosophy, Theology and Religious Discipline. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 23. ISBN 978-81-208-4135-2.
  4. ^ Narasimhacharya, Madabhushini (2004). Sri Ramanuja. Sahitya Akademi. p. 33. ISBN 978-81-260-1833-8.
  5. ^ Garfield, Jay L.; Edelglass, William (23 May 2011). The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy. Oxford University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-19-939742-6.
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