Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

What role, if any, do mythological texts play in philosophical discourse?  While modern Hindu Studies scholars are becoming increasingly attuned to the extent to which Indian narratives encode ideology, Sucharita Adluri’s Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana (Routledge, 2014) explores the extent to which the great medieval Hindu thinker R?m?nuja himself looked to the Vi??u Pur??a (a 1st-4th century narrative work extolling the glories of the great god Vi??u) to bolster his theistic stance on the nature of truth. 
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