Vedanta books

Sri Pancharatra Raksha of Sri Vedanta Desika

Literally meaning ‘Five nights’, the focus of this text amongst other things, is the five step system of Vishnu worship created by Sri. Ramanuja, the proponent of Sri Vaishnavism, and includes adoration of God as Para (invisible being); Vyuha (manifestion in form); Vibhava (incarnations); Antaryamin (as a felt presence) and Archa (an icon). This is a critical publication, wherein 6 palm-leaf manuscripts and 5 printed editions of the Pancharatra-raksha were examined and collated by Pandit Duraiswami Aiyangar and Pandit T. Venugopalacharya, and they have painstakingly given the source of almost all the reference verses quoted by Sri Vedanta Desika.