Vedanta kamadhenu dashashloki

Vedāntakāmadhenu daśaślokī
Sudarśanāvatāra Śrī Nimbārkācharya Ji, The author of Vedāntakāmadhenu daśaślokī
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Religion	Hinduism
Author	Nimbarkacharya
Language	Sanskrit
Verses	10

The Vedanta kamadhenu dashashloki (Sanskrit : वेदान्तकामधेनु दशश्लोकी, romanized: Vedāntakāmadhenu daśaślokī) is a Sanskrit hymn by the Hindu philosopher Nimbarkacharya of the Nimbarka Sampradaya tradition. ^[1]

Soteriology

The style of the "Daśaślokī" is very simple, suited to a devotee who does not want to be bothered with abstract logical theories and hair-splitting wranglings, but wants to have the truth immediately in a nut-shell. ^{[2] [3]}

Hymn

Nimbārka clarifies the characteristics of the individual soul, giving its size and qualities, stating from the very start that it is dependent upon Hari, which is a decidedly Vaiṣṇava view of Brahman. ^[1]

jñānasvarūpañ ca harer adhīnaṁ śarīrasaṁyogaviyogayogyam । aṇuṁ hi jīvaṁ pratidehabhinnaṁ jñātṛtvavantaṁ yad anantam āhuḥ ॥ ^[3]

The individual soul has knowledge as its [essential] nature, is dependent upon Hari, worthy of association and disassociation with bodies, atomic, different in every body, possesses the quality of being a knower and is declared to be infinite in number. ^[4]

— Dasha Shloki, Verse 1

Commentaries

The Vedānta kāmadhenu Daśaślokī have been extensively commented upon by several scholars. Among them, the three primary commentaries ^[5] are:

• Vedāntaratnamañjūṣā of Śrī Puruṣottamāchārya ^{[6] [5] [7]}
• Vedānta Siddhāntaratnāñjali of Śrī Harivyāsa Devāchārya ^{[8] [9] [10] [5] [1]}
• Vedāntalaghumañjūṣā of Śrī Giridhara dāsa ^{[6] [5]}

References

1. Bhandarkar 2014, p. 63.
2. Bose 2004, p. 920.
3. Ramnarace 2014, p. 189.
4. Ramnarace 2014, p. 190.
5. Dasgupta 1988, p. 403.
6. Agrawal 2013, p. 269.
7. Sharma, Chandradhar (2000). A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN   978-81-208-0365-7.
8. Naganath, Dr S. Srikanta Sastri, English Translation by S. (11 May 2022). Indian Culture: A Compendium of Indian History, Culture and Heritage. Notion Press. ISBN   978-1-63806-511-1.
9. Upadhyay 1978, p. 305.
10. Dasgupta 1988, p. 399.

Bibliography

• Upadhyay, Baladeva (1978). Vaishnava Sampradayon ka Siddhanta aur Sahitya. Varanasi: Chowkhamba Amarbharati Prakashan.
• Dasgupta, Surendranath (1988). A history of Indian philosophy. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN   978-81-208-0408-1.
• Agrawal, Madan Mohan (2013). Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies, Bhedābheda and Dvaitādvaita systems. Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies / general ed.: Karl H. Potter. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN   978-81-208-3637-2.
• Bose, Roma (2004). Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha of Nimbārka and Vedānta-kaustubha of Śrīnivāsa: commentaries on the Brahma-sutras; English translation. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. ISBN   978-81-215-1121-6.
• Bhandarkar, R. G. (2014). Vaisnavism, Saivism and Minor Religious Systems (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-58933-4.
• Ramnarace, Vijay (2014). Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa's Vedāntic Debut: Chronology & Rationalisation in the Nimbārka Sampradāya (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.