From the Jacket

In this fourteenth century text 'A Compendium of all the Philosophical Systems' (of India) the author successively passes in review the sixteen philosophical system current in India at the time, and gives what appeared to him to be their most important tenets, and the principal arguments by which their followers endeavoured to maintain them. In the course of his sketches he frequently explains at some length obscure details in the different systems.

The systems are arranged from the Advaita-point of view. They form a gradually ascending scale-the first, the Charvaka and Buddha, being the lowest as the farthest removed from Advaita, and the last, Sankhya and Yoga being the highest as approaching most nearly to it.

The present translation was originally published serially in the Banaras Pandit between 1874 and 1878 and was carefully revised and republished in book form later and a second edition was printed in 1894. What follows is a reprint of the same.

Contents:

Preface

A Note on Romanization

The Sarva-darsana-sangraha

The Prologue

Chs.
I.     The Charvaka System (E. B. C.)
II.    The Buddha System (A. E. G.)
III.   The Arhata or Jaina System (E. B. C.)
IV.   The Ramanuja System (A. E. G.)
V.    The Purna-prajna System (A. E. G.)
VI.   The Nakulisa-Pasupata System (A. E. G.)
VII.  The Saiva System (E. B. C..)
VIII. The Pratyabhijna or Recognitive System (A. E. G.)
IX.   The Rasesvara or Mercurial System (A. E. G.)
X.    The Vaiseshika or Aulukya System (E. B. C.)
XI.   The Akshapada or Nyaya System (E. B. C.)
XII.  The Jaiminiya System (E. B. C.)
XIII. The Paniniya System (E. B. C.)
XIV. The Sankhya System (E. B. C.)
XV.  The Patanjala or Yoga System (E. B. C.)
XVI. The Vedanta or System of Samkara Acharya 
         Appendix-On the Upadhi (E. B. C.)

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