For this work kalpataru, Sri Appayya Dikshita wrote an extensive and easily understandable detailed commentary called the Parimala.Ĥ and 5. The kalpataru is an extremely difficult piece of work, which would require extensive scholarship to understand. For this commentary or Bhashya of Sri Sankara, a great advaitic teacher, by name Sri Vachaspati Misra wrote another commentary called Bhamati. For this work Bhamati, another subsequent advaitic teacher by name Amalananda wrote an abstruse and difficult commentary called kalpataru. The book contains a great many original arguments both for the purvapaksha and the siddhanta under each adhikarana.īhagavadpada Adi Sri Sankaracharya wrote a classic commentary on the Brahmasutras of Badarayans. This is also a very well-known treatise of Sri Appayya Dikshita on the advaitic philosophy and is one of the standard works with which his name is generally associated. This is an elaborate and independent commentary, on the first pada of the Brahmasutras, which deals with the science of ‘self’ and the ‘universe’. Traditional scholars and students of Vedanta have a rule that they would start reading the Bhashya only after they finish the Siddanta Lesa Sangraha.In view of this, this work is very much current among scholars and students. This work is a very elaborate and original treatise written by Sri Appayya Dikshita wherein he has gathered and brought together in one place, all different dialectical thinking belonging to the advaitic cult.

(ii) Vedantic Works of Appayya deekshita : A brief resume of the known works of Sri Appayya Dikshita is attempted below: The other 44 are only known by their names. It will be clear to anyone who has had even a glimpse of the genius of Sri Appayya Dikshita in his works of Vedanta and mimamsa.Īll the 104 works of Appayya Dikshita are now not current. The author’s greatness is to be gauged not by the number of works he has written, but by the depth and profundity of his thought. Sri Appayya Dikshita is known to have had written 104 works.

Works of Sri Appaiya Dikshita (i) Sri Appayya Dikshita’s 104 works

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