SOURCE: "The Heritage of Sankara: A Meeting of Extremes" in The Heritage of Sankara, Udayana Publications, 1965, pp. 139-82.

In the following essay, Roy discusses how the Advaitic philosophy embodied in Sankara's work is a synthesis of two extreme schools of Hindu philosophical thought.

(1) Gi; (1) the Heritage of Sankara: a Meeting of Extremes. =~ Sthe Heritage of Sankara: a Meeting of Extremes.

… The question is—What are the extremes in the Indian philosophical thought? And what do we actually mean by saying that these extremes have met in the heritage of Sankara? For answering the first question, we need a fundamentum divisionis, whereby we could indicate the extreme points of view. In the last chapter we discussed at some length the transcendental reaction against Realism as exemplified in a critique of the pramanas by the Absolutists of both the traditions, namely, the Advaitic and the Buddhist. The two extremes of...