Book is in excellent condition with one bumped corner, grey, heavy weave cloth HB wth green print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners otherwise, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is sunned with small tears at upper edge. 920 pages. "The translator has given the word-for-word meaning of each aphorism under its Sanskrit text, followed by a running translation, with additional words in brackets for clarification. In the translation of the commentary, the tets setting forth doubts, the copponent's views, objectins on the latter, and the Vedantin's answers have been show separately, to facilitate easy comprehension." Contents include: The blissful one, The being inside, Pratardana, The eater, The internal ruler, Vaisvanara, Cods, Pseudo-sudra, Vibration, Causality, Balaki, Explanation of everything, Conflict with smrti, Refutation of yoga, Wholesale transformation, Samkhya view refuted, Vaisesika objection refuted, Atons not the cuase of universe, Refutation of Buddhist realists, Buddhist idealism refuted, Jaina view rufuted, God is not a mere superintendent, Bhagavata view refuted, Origin of space,, air, fire, water, earth, mind, intellect, Soul as agent, Atomic pranas, Creation of gross objects, Fate of evil-doers, Souls in plants and thereafter, Fruits of action, Purusa as the highest in kattha, People with a mission, Yoni as source, Self distinct from body, Characteristics of the liberated soul, Entry into many bodies, Acquisition of divine powers, etc.
