Srihar a is recognised as one of the greatest exponents of what is
generally known as the Sarpkara school of Advaita Vedanta. The Advaita
Vedanta of Sarpkara has been commented upon, explained, expounded and
developed in its various ramifications by several generations of
scholars, commentators and original thinkers for over a thousand years.
Even today it is claimed to be one of the two traditional schools of
Indian Philosophy which have survived and have modern adherents while
most other schools have died of old age on Indian soil. The only other
school that has survived is the Nyaya-Vaise ika or what is now called
the Navya-nyaya. Both Advaita Vedanta and Navya-nyaya have attracted the
attention of modern scholars and philosophers (of both India and
abroad), who are acquainted with Western philosophy and whose interest
in the study of Indian philosophy has not simply been limited to the
history of Indian thought or Indology. Modern exponents of Advaita
Vedanta are numerous. With a few notable exceptions, however, most
modern authors of Vedanta try to expound and modernise the Advaita
system from either a speculative and personal point of view or from a
superficial viewpoint of Kantian philosophy or Hegelian Absolutism. Such
a method has seldom achieved the sophistication and respectability that
is normally expected in the context of modern (chiefly western)
philosophic activity.