Madhvas Zitate Aus Den Puranas Und Dem Mahabharata: Eine Analytische Zusammenstellung Nicht Identifizierbarer Quelienzitate in Madhvas Werken Nebst Ubersetzung Und Anmerkungen (Book Review‪)‬

Madhvas Zitate aus den Puranas und dem Mahabharata: Eine analytische Zusammenstellung nicht identifizierbarer Quelienzitate in Madhvas Werken nebst Ubersetzung und Anmerkungen. By ROQUE MESQUITA. Publications of the De Nobili Research Library, vol. 24. Vienna: INSTITUT FUR SUDASIEN-, TIBET-UND BUDDHISMUSKUNDE DER UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 2007. Pp. 643. "Un des traits assez deconcertants de son oeuvre," Suzanne Siauve wrote about Madhva alias Anandatirtha, "est le fait qu'il cite un nombre considerable de Sruti inconnues qui, a de rares exceptions pres, ne sont utilisees par aucun auteur anterieur ni posterieur a lui, pas meme a l'interieur de son ecole" (La doctrine de Madhva [Paris 1968], 24). Siauve was not one who could be suspected of being unduly critical of Madhva. To the contrary, if anything, reviewers of her works most often found her being partial in his favor (W. Halbfass, JAOS 92 [1972]: 176; O. von Hinuber, Erasmus 25 [1973]: 775). In fact, Siauve actively defended Madhva's numerous unverifiable quotations from the sruti against accusations of deception and even fraud. His sense of orthodoxy, she said, his respect for the Veda, his wide travels in search of manuscripts, the richness of his library, and his remarkable memory make fraud very unlikely. "S'il avail forge ses sources il aurait ete plus habile" (Siauve 1968, p. 25).