Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Studies on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata
- I Origin of Materialism in India: Royal or Popular?
- II Jain Sources for the Study of Pre-Cārvāka Materialist Ideas in India
- III Ajita Kesakambala: Nihilist or Materialist?
- IV Perception and Inference in the Cārvāka Philosophy
- V Commentators of the Cārvākasūtra
- VI Cārvāka Fragments: A New Collection
- VII On the Authenticity of an Alleged Cārvāka Aphorism
- VIII Paurandarasūtra Revisited
- IX What Did the Cārvāka-s Mean by sukhaṃ jīvet?
- X Sāṃkhya, Yoga and Lokāyata in the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra: A Re-View
- XI Yogācāra against the Cārvāka: A Critical Survey of Tattvasaṅgraha, Chapter 22
- XII Jayantabhaṭṭa's Representation of the Cārvāka: A Critique
- XIII What does Udayana Mean by lokavyavahārasiddha iti cārvākāḥ?
- XIV Hemacandra on the Cārvāka: A Survey
- XV Haribhadra's Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya, Verses 81-84: A Study
- XVI The Significance of Lokāyata in Pali
- XVII On Lokāyata and Lokāyatana in Buddhist Sanskrit
- XVIII Lokāyata and Lokāyatana in Sanskrit Dictionaries
- XIX ṛṇaṃ kṛtvā ghṛtaṃ pibet: Who Said This?
- XX jīvikā dhātṛnirmitā or jīviketi bṛhaspatiḥ?
- XXI mṛtānāmapi jantūnām…
- XXII Cārvāka/Lokāyata Philosophy: Perso-Arabic Sources
- XXIII What is Meant by nāstika in the Nyāyasūtra Commentary?
- Bibliography
XII - Jayantabhaṭṭa's Representation of the Cārvāka: A Critique
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Studies on the Cārvāka/Lokāyata
- I Origin of Materialism in India: Royal or Popular?
- II Jain Sources for the Study of Pre-Cārvāka Materialist Ideas in India
- III Ajita Kesakambala: Nihilist or Materialist?
- IV Perception and Inference in the Cārvāka Philosophy
- V Commentators of the Cārvākasūtra
- VI Cārvāka Fragments: A New Collection
- VII On the Authenticity of an Alleged Cārvāka Aphorism
- VIII Paurandarasūtra Revisited
- IX What Did the Cārvāka-s Mean by sukhaṃ jīvet?
- X Sāṃkhya, Yoga and Lokāyata in the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra: A Re-View
- XI Yogācāra against the Cārvāka: A Critical Survey of Tattvasaṅgraha, Chapter 22
- XII Jayantabhaṭṭa's Representation of the Cārvāka: A Critique
- XIII What does Udayana Mean by lokavyavahārasiddha iti cārvākāḥ?
- XIV Hemacandra on the Cārvāka: A Survey
- XV Haribhadra's Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya, Verses 81-84: A Study
- XVI The Significance of Lokāyata in Pali
- XVII On Lokāyata and Lokāyatana in Buddhist Sanskrit
- XVIII Lokāyata and Lokāyatana in Sanskrit Dictionaries
- XIX ṛṇaṃ kṛtvā ghṛtaṃ pibet: Who Said This?
- XX jīvikā dhātṛnirmitā or jīviketi bṛhaspatiḥ?
- XXI mṛtānāmapi jantūnām…
- XXII Cārvāka/Lokāyata Philosophy: Perso-Arabic Sources
- XXIII What is Meant by nāstika in the Nyāyasūtra Commentary?
- Bibliography
Summary
The NM of Jayantabhaṭṭa is a seminal work of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system of philosophy. The author was a staunch opponent of the Cārvāka/Lokāyata and missed no opportunity of reviling it in the strongest possible terms. One of his favourite abuses employed against his adversaries is varāka, ‘wretched’. On one occasion he remarks: “But in such kind of assemblies (discussing philosophical questions), who would indeed care to remember the (name of the) wretched Cārvākas?” He always mentions the Cārvāka-s in a tone of derision and his attempts are directed to the refutation of the materialist tenets as they developed in India, viz.
a. bhūtacaitanyavāda (the doctrine of consciousness arising out of matter).
b. śarīrātmavāda or dehātmavāda (the doctrine of the self as something inseparable from the body, i.e., there can be no self independent of the body).
The Cārvāka-s are made to appear as an opponent (pūrvapakṣin) in relation to a third question, viz.
c. whether or not inference (anumāna) is to be admitted as a means of valid knowledge (pramāṇa).
Here, too, Jayanta ridicules the Cārvāka-s who allegedly do not recognize any other means of valid knowledge except perception (pratyakṣa). It is in this connection that he refers to the well-learned (suśikṣita) and cunning (dhūrta) Cārvāka-s. These two adjectives gave rise to the idea that there were at least two schools of the Cārvāka-s. This view has been accepted uncritically by almost all historians and analysts of Indian philosophy.
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- Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata , pp. 147 - 158Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011