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        <journal-title>Divyadaan</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Divyadaan</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">applied</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0972-2211</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Fr. Ian Pinto</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">DJPE1370004</article-id>
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        <article-title>SARA GRANT AND THE QUESTION OF RELATION IN ŚAṄKARA VEDANTA</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Palaparambil</surname>
            <given-names>Jacob</given-names>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-12">
        <month>04</month>
        <day>12</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>37</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>27</fpage>
      <lpage>40</lpage>
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        <p>Sara Grant (1922-2000), influenced by Adi Saṅkaracarya and shaped by Richard De  Smet,  rethinks  key  metaphysical  categories-relation,  non-duality, and personhood-without reducing Advaita to Western monism or Christian theism. This article examines her account of relation (saṃbandha) in Saṅkara&apos;s thought, situating it within the De Smet School and engaging concepts such as tādātmya, avidyā, adhyāsa, and lakṣaṇā. It argues that Grant develops a philosophically rigorous account of relation as epistemologically necessary and soteriologically significant,  though  not  ultimately  real,  thereby  opening  new  avenues  for comparative philosophy and Hindu-Christian dialogue.</p>
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        <kwd>Sara Grant</kwd>
        <kwd>Adi Shankaracharya</kwd>
        <kwd>Richard De Smet</kwd>
        <kwd>Advaita Vedanta</kwd>
        <kwd>non-duality</kwd>
        <kwd>relation (saṃbandha)</kwd>
        <kwd>personhood</kwd>
        <kwd>tādātmya</kwd>
        <kwd>avidyā</kwd>
        <kwd>adhyāsa</kwd>
        <kwd>lakṣaṇā</kwd>
        <kwd>comparative philosophy</kwd>
        <kwd>Hindu-Christian dialogue</kwd>
        <kwd>metaphysics</kwd>
        <kwd>epistemology</kwd>
        <kwd>soteriology</kwd>
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