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Journal of Indian Philosophy, 2021
This article is first in a series dedicated to issues in the intellectual history of Mīmāṃsā in e... more This article is first in a series dedicated to issues in the intellectual history of Mīmāṃsā in early modern India and part of a larger effort to broaden the basis for understanding the new formulations of central topics of the Mīmāṃsā textual-ritual complex in this period. It examines how the Varanasi scholar Khaṇḍadevamiśra makes use of Navyanyāya tools of analysis by putting under the microscope the example of his investigation and new formulation of the signification of agent and agency by the verbal affix in his ample analysis of the cognition of the meaning elements of a sentence (śābdabodha). Authors of Mīmāṃsā works in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gradually and selectively adopt the tools and techniques of cognitive analysis and the characteristic new idiom elaborated by Navyanaiyāyikas a few centuries earlier. This process of adoption arises on the sidelines of the Advaita–Dvaita Vedānta controversy in South India, then subsequently flourishes in Varanasi, as I have followed elsewhere (Diaconescu 2012a). In his analysis of the topic studied here, Khaṇḍadeva uses the new tools to revisit the Mīmāṃsā tradition in order to advance his new formulation while refuting certain Navyanyāya rival positions.
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Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 2012
This article aims to follow the process of adoption of Navya-Nyāya techniques of cognitive analys... more This article aims to follow the process of adoption of Navya-Nyāya techniques of cognitive analysis in the school of Vedic hermeneutics, Mīmāṃsā, in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, in the larger context of the spread of these techniques in India. I shall argue that this process arises in Mīmāṃsā on the sidelines of the Advaita-Dvaita Vedānta controversy in South India, then subsequently flourishes in Varanasi. These techniques are adopted gradually and selectively, for not all the Mīmāṃsā thinkers choose to use them.
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ and Binoy Pichalakkattu SJ, eds. An Indian Ending: Rediscovering the Grandeur of Indian Heritage for a Sustainable Life-Style. Essays in Honour of Professor Dr. John Vattanky SJ on Completing Eighty Years. Pp. 73-109, 2013
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Johannes Bronkhorst and Karin Preisendanz, eds. From Vasubandhu to Caitanya: Studies in Indian Philosophy and Its Textual History. Papers of the 12thWorld Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki 2003. Vol. 10.1. Pp. 137-142., 2010
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South and Southeast Asia Culture and Religion (The SSEASR Journal), 2008
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L'héritage spirituel de l'Inde. Vol. 2: Les systèmes philosophiques. Pp. 9-20. , 2007
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