Studies in the Sarva- Darsana- Samgraha

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The Sarvadarsanasamgraha is one of the few Sanskrit texts that attempts to give an exhaustive overview of all schools of Sanskrit philosophy. It was composed in the fourteenth century in the south of India but had to wait until the nineteenth century to be rediscovered by modern scholarship. It then influenced the first presentations of Indian philosophy but was subsequently largely ignored by academic scholarship. This explains that a number of misunderstandings about this text could arise and be kept alive. The present volume deal with a number of these. It also addresses other questions that an in-depth study of the text gives rise to.

JOHANNES BRONKHORST is a retired professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. After initial studies of Physics and Mathematics (B.Sc., Amsterdam 1968), he took up the study of Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Rajasthan (Jaipur, India), then at the University of Pune (India). In Pune he obtained an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979. He obtained a second doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1980. In 1987 he was appointed full professor of Sanskrit & Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne, where he stayed until his retirement in 2011. He has published numerous articles and books. His most recent books are: Greater Magadha (2007), Aux origines de la philosophie indienne (2008), Buddhist Teaching in India (2009), Language and Reality (2011), Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (2011), Karma (2011), Absorption: Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation (2012), How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas (2016), A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought (2019), Compendium of All Philosophies: Sarvadarśanasamgraha (in press).

This volume brings together a number of articles that were first published elsewhere:

Chapter 1: "The structure of the Sarvadarsanasamgraha." Journal of Indian Philosophy 49(4), 2021, 523-534. https://doi.org/10.1007/ $10781-021-09474-1. (Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)

Chapter 2: "The Sarvadarśanasamgraha: One text or two? One author or two?" 'Verità e bellezza. Essays in Honour of Raffaele Torella. Ed. Francesco Sferra & Vincenzo Vergiani. Napoli: Unior Press. 2022. Pp. 129-152. (reprinted with permission from the editors)

Chapter 3: "Correcting the text of the Sarvadarśanasamgraha." Journal of Indian Philosophy 48(5), 2020, 945-961. https://doi. org/10.1007/s10781-020-09448-9. (Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)

Chapter 4: "Eternal Veda, eternal philosophy? With special reference to the Sarvadarśanasamgraha." To appear in: Festschrift to Honour Prof. ShashiPrabha Kumar. Ed. Devendra Singh, Renu K. Sharma, Purushottama Bilimoria, Agnieszka Rostalska. (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures)

Chapter 5: "What did Indian philosophers agree on? With special reference to the Sarvadarśanasamgraha." Antiqvorvm Philosophia 13, 2019, 11-21. https://doi.org/10.19272/201930201001. (reprinted with permission from the editor)

Chapter 6: "Sarvadarśanasamgraha and Vākyapadīya." Sabdanugamah. Indian linguistic studies in honor of George Cardona. Volume I: Vyākaraņa and Śābdabodha. Ed. Peter M. Scharf. Providence: The Sanskrit Library. 2021. Pp. 297-311. (reprinted with permission from the editor)

The texts have been reproduced with only minor modifications and adjustments. Only chapter 4 has been improved following suggestions by Raffaele Torella, as clarified in the text.