Sabdartharatna of Taranatha Tarkavacaspati (A Critical Study with English Translation)

About the Book

This researchstudy on of Taranatha. Tarkavacaspati includes the criticai edition as well as an English translation of the text and a focused critical analysis of the text. Along with an introduction to the work and its author this study deals with the linguistic concept of sabdartha. The text of the critical edition is given in final chapters and in these chapters, me text is subdivided into small units on the basis of logical division of the topic considered and each unit has been numbered separately for easy reference. For a better understanding of the text, the translation is invariably followed by explanatory notes. As the philosophic glances move from one side to the other, newer and newer relations are discovered and the linguistic-glance of the Sabdartharatna (the vatheirtha elements) is turned into lingo-scriptural glance le vent) for fresh insights, Just as one moves from the import of words to the impori of sentences in linguistic philosophy, here the import of sentences are further moved or transcended to the import of scriptures and, thus, the language of hermeneutics is converted into a language of scripttiritual hermeneutics. Sahdartharatna is an excellent work in the tradition of vyakaranadarsana which includes almost of the topics that are generally discussed in the field tiy. I congratulate Dr. Jojo Parecattil that he took this td made a great endeavour in studying it critically and same into English with useful notes. The language in the thesis is lucid and methodology adopted here is praiseworthy.

About the Author

Prof. Ramesh Chadra Panda Dean, Faculty of Sanskrit Learning and Theology Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005 Dr. Jojo Parecattil CMI, a Catholic priest belonging to the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), teaches Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India. Apart from his expertise in Sanskrit language, Parecattil holds a postgraduate degree in Nyaya Philosophy from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, MPhil from Madras University, and a PhD from the University of Pune.