Essay name: Discovery of Sanskrit Treasures (seven volumes)
Author:
Satya Vrat Shastri
Affiliation: Karnatak University / Department of Sanskrit
The series called "Discovery of Sanskrit Treasures" represents a comprehensive seven-volume compendium of Dr. Satya Vrat Shastri's research on Sanskrit and Indology. They feature a wide range of studies across major disciplines in these fields, showcasing Shastri's pioneering work. They include detailed analyses like the linguistic appraisal of Yogavasishtha, etymological studies in the Mahabharata and the Devibhagavata-purana, as well as explorations of human values as defined in ancient texts.
Volume 5 - Philosophy and Religion
60 (of 216)
External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Philosophy and Religion Sampradayas There have been, and still are, many sects in India whose founders have expounded, according to their light, many a new view on several metaphysical and mystical problems. These have been further elaborated by their followers with the result that here has grown a mass of literature dealing with sectional doctrines. After wading through it we have found a number of references to the philosophy of time which are highly interesting in the variety and richness of their content. Below we present a brief study of the time-concept as we found it in these Sampradayas. R膩m膩nuja We take first the R膩m膩nujasampradaya. Here we have three Realities, namely, Cit, Acit, and Isvara. The Acit is further divided into three parts-pure sattva, mixed sattva and void sattva (suddha sattvam, mi艣rasattvam, sattva艣眉nya峁� ceti). Out of these K膩la is sattva艣unya. It is the cause of the modification of Prak峁泃i and its evolutes and is itself modified as kal膩, k膩峁ａ弓h膩 etc. It is eternal. It is Lord's field of activity and His body." 129 In another work of this Sampradaya, the following definition
of K膩la is given:
at墨t膩divyavah膩rahetu岣� k膩la岣� | k膩likena sarv膩dh膩ra-
tvam tallak峁峁嘺m|| 130
"K膩la is the basis for such parlance as past. K膩la is so called
because it is the substratum of everything in so far as everything
is comprehended by it."
Here Prakrti, Puru峁 and K膩la are regarded as the playthings
of the Lord (parame艣itu岣� kr墨岣嵞乸arikarah). Prakrti and Puru峁
become means with which the Lord effects His purpose, viz., the
creation and the dissolution of the Universe. K膩la does merely
an assisting job. It is a mere aide as says the Yatindramatad墨pik膩:
evambh奴ta岣� k膩la i艣varasya kr墨岣嵞乸arikaro bhavati
袩墨l膩vibh奴t膩v 墨艣vara岣� k膩l膩dh墨na eva karya峁� karotin/131
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"Thus defined Kala is the Lord's field of activity. In display of
