How Long to Read The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vṛtti

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It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vṛtti by Utpala

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"The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā (ĪPK) of Utpaladeva (ca. 925-975 C.E.) is the foundation stone of the Pratyabhijñā school and constitutes the main theoretical framework of the Trika. It is the most important philosophical work of non-dual tantric Shaivism as a whole. Utpaladeva devoted two commentaries to his ĪPK a vṛtti and a ṭīkā or vivṛti (now almost totally lost). According to Abhinavagupta, the ĪPK and the vṛtti thereon were composed by Utpaladeva at the same time. This makes the vṛtti an indispenable tool to grasp the original meaning of the difficult kārikās of the Īśvarapratyabhijñā. Unfortunately, all vṛtti manuscripts from Kashmir broke at the same point and, consequently, so did the edition (also faulty in many points) published in the Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies in 1918. The present book, originally published in the Serie Orientale Roma (IsMEO), contains the first critical edition of the ĪPK and, for the first time, the complete text of the vṛtti on the basis of a unique Malayalam manuscript discovered in Trivandrum Library by R. Torella, who has also made use of the other incomplete manuscripts from Kashmir. The edition is accompanied by an English translation with copious exegetical notes, which highlight the connections of Utpaladeva's thought with the coeval schools of Indian philosophy and, first of all, with the Buddhist pramāṇa tradition."--Jacket.

How long is The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vṛtti?

The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vṛtti by Utpala is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva with the Author's Vṛtti aloud.

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