[Advaita-l] Shankara's unique attitude of praise and censure of his opponents

[V Subrahmanian]

In the prasthana traya bhashya we see Shankara taking up the criticism of
various non-Vedantic schools.  While carefully reading such discourses, we
can notice a unique feature: para matam apratishiddham anumatam bhavati
(what is non-contradictory in other systems with respect to Vedanta, is
admissible to us, the Vedantins). Closely related to this is Shankara
acknowledging the good even in the opponents and offering praise. Censure
of those very schools/proponents can be properly gauged only when we take
note of those instances too.  A few examples are given in the file below:

https://adbhutam.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/shankaras-unique-attitude5e.5e.pdf

warm regards
subbu