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Title

Vaiśeṣikasūtra - a translation / Ionut Moise and Ganesh U. Thite [translators].

Author

Kaṇāda

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moise, Ionut, 1982-
• Thite, Ganesh Umakant
• Jambūvijaya, Muni

Description

xvi, 294 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book introduces readers to Indian philosophy by presenting the first integral English translation of Vaiśeṣikasūtra with the earliest extant commentary of Candrānanda on the old aphorisms of Vaiśeṣika school of Indian philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive description of the fundamental categories of ontology and metaphysics, among which the category of 'particularity' (viśeṣa) plays a major role in the 'problem of individuation' of 'substance' and 'nature' in both Indian and Western metaphysics. The book should be read primarily in relation to Aristotle's Categories and is structured in three parts. Part 1 contains a general introduction to Indian philosophy and the Vaiśeṣika system. Part 2 is a textual-philological discussion on the commentary itself, since its first publication in 1961 by Muni Jambūvijayaji up until the present day. Part 3 is a philosophical translation that reads Vaiśeṣika in the global context of Comparative Philosophy and makes the text accessible to all philosophy readers interested in ontology and metaphysics. A new reference work and a fundamental introduction to anyone interested in Indian and Comparative Philosophy, this book will be of interest to academics and students in the field of Classical Studies, Modern Philosophy and Asian Religions and Philosophies"--

Series Statement

Routledge Hindu studies series

Uniform Title

• Vaiśeṣikasūtra. English.
• RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series

Alternative Title

Vaiśeṣikasūtra.

Subject

• Kaṇāda
• Aristotle
• Vaiśeṣika > Early works to 1800
• Ontology > Religious aspects > Hinduism
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy, Ancient

Note

• Vaiśeṣikasūtra composed by Kanada arranged and adorned with the ancient commentary of Candrananda.
• Manuscripts based on author's translation, do not mention any authorship.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index.

Language (note)

• In Sanskrit (Roman) with facing English translation.

Contents

Introduction to Indian philosophy and Vaiśeṣika -- 2. Sources and resources on Vaiśeṣikasūtra -- 3. Vaiśeṣikasūtra: Transliteration and Translation.

ISBN

• 9780367770822
• 0367770822
• 9781032005904
• 1032005904
• 9781003174813 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021003341

OCLC

• on1233266003
• SCSB-13649027

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library