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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTION
- II DISCOURSE, CONDITIONS AND DYNAMICS OF TRADITION IN SOUTH ASIA
- III HOW TO PRODUCE, CONSTRUCT AND LEGITIMATE A TRADITION
- Buddhism and the Mahābhārata. Boundary Dynamics in Textual Practice
- Trita's Tumble and Agastya's Ancestors: On The Narrative Construction of Dharma
- Creating Traditions through Narration. The Case of Śakuntalā
- A Dynamic Tradition of Truth-telling: Moral Innovation in the Mahābhārata
- From Person to Person: A Study of Tradition in the Guruparaṃparāsāra of Vedānta Deśika's Śrīemat Rahasyatrayasāra
- What Makes a Work ‘Traditional’? On the Success of Nīelakaṇṭha's Mahābhārata Commentary
- Constructing the Wheel of Time. Strategies for Establishing a Tradition
- Bhāṭṭamīmāṃsā and Nyāya on Veda and Tradition
- Why should the Flower of Dharma be Invisible? Sāyaṇa's Vision of the Unity of the Veda
- IV EXPERIENCING BOUNDARIES WITHIN TRADITION: THE CASE OF THE SANSKRIT GRAMMARIANS
- V VIOLATING TRADITION AND ITS BOUNDARIES
- VI THINKING ABOUT TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA TODAY
Bhāṭṭamīmāṃsā and Nyāya on Veda and Tradition
from III - HOW TO PRODUCE, CONSTRUCT AND LEGITIMATE A TRADITION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I INTRODUCTION
- II DISCOURSE, CONDITIONS AND DYNAMICS OF TRADITION IN SOUTH ASIA
- III HOW TO PRODUCE, CONSTRUCT AND LEGITIMATE A TRADITION
- Buddhism and the Mahābhārata. Boundary Dynamics in Textual Practice
- Trita's Tumble and Agastya's Ancestors: On The Narrative Construction of Dharma
- Creating Traditions through Narration. The Case of Śakuntalā
- A Dynamic Tradition of Truth-telling: Moral Innovation in the Mahābhārata
- From Person to Person: A Study of Tradition in the Guruparaṃparāsāra of Vedānta Deśika's Śrīemat Rahasyatrayasāra
- What Makes a Work ‘Traditional’? On the Success of Nīelakaṇṭha's Mahābhārata Commentary
- Constructing the Wheel of Time. Strategies for Establishing a Tradition
- Bhāṭṭamīmāṃsā and Nyāya on Veda and Tradition
- Why should the Flower of Dharma be Invisible? Sāyaṇa's Vision of the Unity of the Veda
- IV EXPERIENCING BOUNDARIES WITHIN TRADITION: THE CASE OF THE SANSKRIT GRAMMARIANS
- V VIOLATING TRADITION AND ITS BOUNDARIES
- VI THINKING ABOUT TRADITIONS IN SOUTH ASIA TODAY
Summary
Introduction
This paper deals with the development of two philosophical traditions (i.e. successions of thinkers), namely Nyāya and Bhāṭṭamīmāṃā. Our attempt is to juxtapose the two schools on a specific philosophical problem, to highlight points of contact and departure, and possibly to get a better picture of the evolution of their thought by underlining inherited concepts and mutual influences. In doing so we will show how the representatives of the two streams further explained the original arguments of the sūtras, added new perspectives, and replied to issues raised by opponent schools.
Particularly, our focus is on the defense of the validity (prāmāṇya) of Veda. The reason for this choice is that Veda is held as an autonomous source of information about religious matters by the two schools under exam and is widely accepted in their social context as a source of knowledge. In this sense it constitutes the tradition (i.e. the cultural horizon) of both.
In their bid to defend Veda's validity, Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā have also a further purpose (for Nyāya, arguably, the main purpose): justifying the epistemic role of tradition (i.e. word-conveyed knowledge).
In the following pages the different acceptations of the word ‘tradition’—respectively employed, from the strictly grammatical point of view, as a class-noun, a noun denoting a state of affairs, and an action noun—will clearly surface: we are going to talk of traditions that, within the horizon of a cultural tradition, discuss the epistemic role of tradition.
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