Stephen Phillips
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first heard Sep 2021
last heard Sep 2021
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But but I must say just just as a kind of insider point that that people probably will not appreciate
Udayana of all the philosophers uh that I have tried to read in Sanskrit, I find the most difficult because
Um, I don't know if you've you yourself have tried to read U Diana, but it's highly elliptical.
Highly even more I mean Gangesha has very long complex sentences.
An el and ellipsis uh it's a common feature, but nothing like Udaiana.
Oh
Really.
Again, again, uh uh uh being uh uh a uh professional
philosopher and Sanskritist, uh, Gangesh was a natural choice.
Uh the the the two um
Best known and also most astute
combination of philosopher and Sanskritist in the writing in English, uh and the generation before me were were two two uh scholars uh uh one uh JN Mohanti and the other uh Bimal Matilal
Both of these fellows were
were uh
had us their
uh specialty nyayah, and both uh translated sections of the Tatra Chintamini, the a whole a whole just one section about one sixteenth of the perception chapter.
Remember there are four chapters in the Tatra Chintamini, the jewel of we'll call it the jewel,
Joel and reflection on the truth about epistemology, was translated in the Harvard Oriental series by Montilaw, I think, in nineteen sixty eight.
Uh Mohante translated a very important section on how we know that we know, um and uh and
B but you know, here here two s uh m let's say maybe three sixteenths of the whole perception chapter have been translated by these very great scholars before me.
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