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active 17th century Gaudapurnanandacakravarti
Known chiefly from a single surviving work, this 17th-century Sanskrit writer is associated with The Tattva-Muktavali, a text preserved and circulated through later editions and translations. The author remains little documented today, but the work points to a place within the rich tradition of Indian philosophical writing.
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The Tattva-Muktavali
by active 17th century Gaudapurnanandacakravarti
About the author
Very little biographical information appears to be firmly documented about this author beyond the catalog form of the name Gaudapurnanandacakravarti, also given as Gauda Purnananda Chakravarti, and the broad dating "active 17th century." Because the surviving record is so thin, it is safest to treat the author as a relatively obscure Sanskrit scholar whose life details have not been clearly preserved in the sources available here.
The work most closely associated with this name is The Tattva-Muktavali. Its continued presence in library and public-domain catalogs suggests that the text has had an afterlife through preservation, editing, and translation rather than through abundant surviving biographical material about its author.
For listeners, that obscurity can be part of the interest: the book opens a window onto an older intellectual tradition where the writing has endured even when the person behind it has mostly faded from view.