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While two English translations of the Caraka are presently available

and finally some taken on account of their poetic or dramatic merit

The Acarya Ram Lal Kapoor Trust When Visiting a Monastery 264This latest addition to Sankara literature is totally different in concept. It's based solidly in tradition and it is at the same time just the kind of presentation that makes the postmodern reader sit up and take notice. It is philosophical, yet never forbiddingly so. It reads more like a story. The prose is simple, smooth and meditative. Padmapada, Sankara's senior disciple, narrates the story in very human terms. His intent is not to glorify his