History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c91.183

v7.c91.183

¹⁵⁷⁰ तापादिपञ्चसंस्कारी नवेज्यौकर्मकारकः । अर्थपञ्चकविद्विप्रो महाभागवतः स्मृतः॥ पद्म VI. 280 27. For तापादि, vide note 1546 above The nine modes of worship are स्मरणं &c quoted in note 1571. The five heads under which the doctrines of the रामानुज school are discussed are . (1) जीव, (2) ईश्वर, (3) उपाय (way to God), (4) फल or पुरुषार्थ (the goals of human life), (5) विरोधिनः (obstructions or obstacles to the attainment of God). There is a work called अर्थपञ्चक by नारायण, in which each of the above five heads is shown to have five sub-divisions Vide Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar's paper in Proceedings of the International Congress of Orientalists held at Vienna in 1886, Aryan section, pp. 101-110 for a summary of the work called अर्थपञ्चक.