With a textual record spanning dozens of languages—to say nothing of its oral histories—Advaita Vedānta’s multilingual archive presents obvious and daunting challenges for scholars of South Asian intellectual and religious histories. The papers in this issue build on recent multilingual and contextual approaches to South Asian intellectual history by reading a rich corpus of Advaita Vedānta material in Persian, Marathi, Tamil, Sanskrit and Braj Bhasha. In bringing these sources and their authors into conversation with one another, this issue acknowledges Advaita Vedānta’s broad appeal in early-modern and colonial South Asia; but it also attests to Advaita Vedānta’s heterogeneous, textured, and even contested historical development. The following papers chart Advaita Vedānta across five unique social, linguistic, intellectual, and geographical spaces from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. While no single issue could contextualize something as historically recalcitrant as Advaita Vedānta, we see this special issue as a step on the long and necessary road to historicizing Vedānta, broadly, and Advaita Vedānta, specifically.

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多元化的非二元性：关于 Advaita Vedānta 的多语言视角，1560-1847

文本记录跨越数十种语言——更不用说它的口述历史了——Advaita Vedānta 的多语言档案对南亚知识和宗教历史的学者提出了明显而艰巨的挑战。本期论文通过阅读波斯语、马拉地语、泰米尔语、梵语和 Braj Bhasha 的丰富的 Advaita Vedānta 材料，建立在最近对南亚思想史的多语言和语境方法的基础上。通过将这些来源及其作者彼此对话，本期承认 Advaita Vedānta 在早期现代和殖民南亚的广泛吸引力；但它也证明了 Advaita Vedānta 的异质性、结构性，甚至是有争议的历史发展。以下论文将 Advaita Vedānta 描绘成五个独特的社会、语言、知识、16 世纪中叶至 19 世纪中叶的地理空间。虽然没有任何一个问题可以将像 Advaita Vedānta 这样在历史上顽固的事物置于语境中，但我们认为这个特殊问题是在将 Vedānta 广泛地历史化，特别是 Advaita Vedānta 历史化的漫长而必要的道路上迈出的一步。