FOREWORD
THis is the first time that the Adyar Library has published a work bearing on the Dvaita School of Vedanta. It is our desire to publish in our series standard works dealing with the different aspects of Indian thought, namely, religion, philosophy, literature, arts etc. No apology is needed in having selected the Vadavali of Jayatirtha as the first work in our series bearing on the Dvaita School. It is admitted by all that Jayaurtha is the greatest exponent of Madhva's philosophy and this work tackles the most important problem on which the Advaitins and the Dvaitins differ fundamentally, namely, the reality or the illusoriness of difference in the Universe.
The edition of the work was prepared by Mr. P. Nagaraja Rao, now a member of the Department of Philosophy in the Benares Hindu University. The edition with an English translation and notes was undertaken bf him when he was a Res~arch Fellow in the Department of Indian Phitosophy in the University of Madjas; the late Mr. S. S. Suryanarayana Sastri, • the Head of the Department supervised his work. With the permission of the Univ~rsity, the publication of the
