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scholarship by outlining all the systems of philosophy and theology known to him and giving an account of their 10 differences within a systematic framework of interpretation.
In the process, he mentioned some ninety authors and works
from various branches of Sanskrit learning. 21
His most famous work, however, and the prime source
of his claim to immortality in the annals of the Samkara
school, was his Advaitasiddhi ("Vindication of Non-dualism")
(AS). This work, it is said, successfully defended
艢a峁噆ara's non-dualism against the vigorous attacks of a
brilliant follower of Madhva, Vyasar膩ja (1460-1539).
latter had almost succeeded in throwing the prestige of
Advaita into utter collapse with his Ny膩y膩m峁泃a, in which he
made devastating use of the methods of navyany膩ya to refute
one after another all of the cherished doctrines of
Samkara's scholastic successors.
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In the ponderous and
rigorously dialectical AS, Madhusudana provided extensive,
carefully worked-out answers to all of Vy膩sar膩ja's
objections, using to the full his genius as a logician and
polemicist, and thus saved the day for the Advaitins.
text has the reputation of being a "tough nut" the kernel of
which the "beak of intelligence" has difficulty in
22 reaching. To this day it is highly esteemed among
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traditional pandits, who consider its study indispensable to
genuine scholarship in Advaita.
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