B. N. K. Sharma

B. N. K. Sharma (9 June 1909 – 2 July 2005), full name Bhavani Narayanrao Krishnamurti Sharma, was an Indian writer, scholar, indologist, scholar most famous for his works "History of the Dvaita School of Vedānta and Its Literature". He won Sahitya Akademi award for this work.

Quotes

• "there would be no distinction between truth and falsity in experience. There would be nothing to distinguish illusions from valid experiences. All experience would be suspect."
  • Vadiraja's Refutation of Sankara's Non-dualism: Clearing the Way for Theism

• "Since identifying experimentality as the whole criterion of self identity, it goes without saying that where it is absent self-identity too must necessarily be non-existant"
  • Philosophy of Śrī Madhvācārya. Motilal Banarsidass (2014 Reprint). 1962. p. 257.