Amalananda was a south Indian Sanskrit scholar who lived during the reign of Mahadeva, the Yadava ruler of

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who ruled from 1260 to 1271. Not much is known about his life and background. Anubhavānanda is believed to have been his preceptor. Amalānanda wrote ''Vedānta Kalpatarū'' sometime before 1297. This book is a commentary on '' Bhāmatī '' of Vācaspati Miśra which text in its own turn is a commentary on Sankara's commentary on the

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of Badarayana. His other works are – ''Śastra-darpana'' which is explanations of the Brahma Sutras, and ''Pancapādikā-darpana'' which is a commentary on Padmapādācārya's ''Pancapādika''. The language of these works is chaste and the thought-content is serious. Vācaspati Miśra, the author of ''Bhāmatī'' lived around 841.

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(1520–1593), son of Rangarājādhvarindra of Kānci, and a prolific writer, wrote his ''Kalpataruparimala'', a commentary on Amalānanda's ''Vedanta-Kalpataru''. Sankara explains ''Yadrecchāvadā'', referred to by the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, as the doctrine of accidental effects which are due to chance; Amalānanda explains it as the doctrine that effects are produced at any time depending on definite causes. The same Upanishad mentions nature (''svabhava'') as the cause of the world. Sankara explains it as the natural powers inherent in different things. Amalānanda explains nature as that which exists so long as things exists e.g. breathing as the nature of the living body exists so long as the body exists.

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