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				<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen a copy of the Upayukta Mīmāṃsā?. I already discussed here my admiration and fascination for Uttamur T. Viraraghavacarya and his work. Vīrarāghavācarya is known in his Tamil works as Uttamur (or Uthamur) T. Vīrarāghavācarya (with various graphic variants) and in his Sanskrit works mainly as Abhinava Deśika Vīrarāghavācarya. He wrote countless books, mostly commentaries on Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta books in Tamil, Maṇipravāḷa [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em id="gnt_postsubtitle" style="color:#770005;font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:1.3em;line-height:1.2em;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;">Have you ever seen a copy of the Upayukta Mīmāṃsā?</em></p> <p>I already discussed <a href="http://elisafreschi.com/2017/09/17/the-hillary-clinton-effect-in-sanskrit-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> my admiration and fascination for Uttamur T. Viraraghavacarya and his work. Vīrarāghavācarya is known in his Tamil works as Uttamur (or Uthamur) T. Vīrarāghavācarya (with various graphic variants) and in his Sanskrit works mainly as Abhinava Deśika Vīrarāghavācarya.</p>
<p>He wrote countless books, mostly commentaries on Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta books in Tamil, Maṇipravāḷa and Sanskrit. However, he also wrote directly on texts he deemed important for religious, e.g., stotras and Upaniṣads, theological, e.g., Udayana&#8217;s Nyāyakusumañjali, and philosophical reasons, e.g., Kaṇāda&#8217;s <em>Vaiśeṣika Sūtra</em> and Pāṇini&#8217;s <em>Aṣṭādhyāyī</em>. His commentaries display his originality and deepness as a thinker, an instance of which has been discussed <a href="http://elisafreschi.com/2018/01/11/being-a-mima%e1%b9%83saka-and-believing-in-god-might-be-hard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<p>The Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta community also reveres the figure of U.T. Vīrarāghavācārya, so that one can find on the web several interesting webpages dedicated to him and many of his works have been uploaded on archive.org (mostly under the name &#8220;Uttamur T. Viraraghavacharya&#8221;, see <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=Viraraghavacharya&amp;page=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>). However, I could not find in any library or catalogue a copy of a text he refers to in his commentary on Vedānta Deśika&#8217;s <em>Seśvaramīmāṃsā</em>, namely his <em>Upayukta Mīmāṃsā</em>. According to the way he presents it (in his commentary on the beginning of the SM), this should constitute an attempt of making Pūrva Mīmāṃsā consistent with Vedānta, thus a very interesting topic. It is also referred to, for instance, in <a href="http://www.uttamurswami.org/wordpress/home/introduction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a> and <a href="https://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/1543505-web-site-release-on-sri-utthamur-swami-works-of-swami/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a> page dedicated to U.T. Vīrarāghavācārya, still not a copy seems to be available for purchase (or download).</p>
<p><strong>Do readers have suggestions about where to look for a copy of it?</strong><br />
<small>(I already wrote to the Uttamur Swami Trust)</small></p>
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