Abhidheya

[Jan Brzezinski]

Is there no precedent, then, for the Gaudiya Vaisnava usage of this terminology in which  the three correspond roughly as follows: sambandha = ontology; abhidheya = deontology; prayojana = teleology?

Jan





> Abhidheya (also called viZaya), when mentioned along with sambandha and
> prayojana, means subject/topic of a systematic work; and the three,
> sometimes with the fourth one, the adhikarin, are together called
> 'anubandha-s' (qualifiers), and are considered to be binding on the author
> of a work to be announced at the outset. I am not aware of any authentic
> Vedanta work taking the word in question to mean sAdhana.
> It is obvious that the concept of anubandha came into vogue to answer the
> primary queries of an intelligent reader in behalf of a work: (1) for whom
> is it intended; (2) what is its subject; (3) what is its
> justification/inter-relation as a subject/topic; (4) what profit would a
> reader derive from it. I have discussed these conventional anubandhas and
> their traditional explanations in my article, 'A Rational Approach to
> Vedanta', published in ABORI, 1996.
> KSA
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