Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Brownfox, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note: The Diacritical marks in this book are not consistent throughout the book. The original Diacritical marks have been retained. TRÜBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. THE SARVA-DARŚANA-SAṂGRAHA OR _REVIEW OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF HINDU PHILOSOPHY._ BY MÁDHAVA ÁCHÁRYA. TRANSLATED BY E. B. COWELL, M.A. PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AND FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND HONORARY LL.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. AND A. E. GOUGH, M.A. PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, AND PRINCIPAL OF THE MADRASA, CALCUTTA. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1882. * * * * * PREFACE. I well remember the interest excited among the learned Hindus of Calcutta by the publication of the Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha of Mádhava Áchárya in the Bibliotheca Indica in 1858. It was originally edited by Paṇḍit Íśvarachandra Vidyáságara, but a subsequent edition, with no important alterations, was published in 1872 by Paṇḍit Táránátha Tarkaváchaspati. The work had been used by Wilson in his "Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus" (first published in the Asiatic Researches, vol. xvi., Calcutta, 1828); but it does not appear to have been ever much known in India. MS. copies of it are very scarce; and those found in the North of India, as far as I have had an opportunity of examining them, seem to be all derived from one copy, brought originally from the South, and therefore written in the Telugu character. Certain mistakes are found in all alike, and probably arose from some illegible readings in the old Telugu original. I have noticed the same thing in the Nágarí copies of Mádhava's Commentary on the Black Yajur Veda, which are current in the North of India.