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
VIII - Paurandarasūtra Revisited
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 name of Purandara, a Cārvāka philosopher, was unknown to modern scholars before 1914. It was from the editio princeps of Vādidevasūri's SVR that they came to know of a work called Paurandaraṃ sūtram along with an aphorism quoted from it: pramāṇasya gauṇatvād (sic) anumānād arthaniścayo durlabhaḥ. The SVR, however, does not seem to have attracted much attention. P.D. Gune in his introduction to the edition of Dhanapāla's Bhavisayatthakahā (1923) refers to a verse which mentions, among others, Akalaṅka and Purandara. He then quotes from the marginal notes on a passage found in a MS of Pupphadanta's Tisaṭṭhimahāpurisaguṇālaṃkāra which identified Akalaṅka as nyāyakārakartā and Purandara as cārvākamate granthakartā. G. Tucci noticed this reference and mentioned it in a paper in 1925. None of them refers to the SVR.
The aphorism quoted in the SVR was also found in Abhayadevasūri's TBV, first published in 1924 with a variant reading: pramāṇasyāgauṇatvād, etc., though there is no mention of Purandara in this work.
The aphorism itself, however, was not a discovery. It was known from the first edition of the NM (1895) but it was not attributed to any work called Paurandaraṃ sūtram. Prabhācandra also cited this aphorism in the PKM but spoke of the Cārvāka-s in general, not specifically of Purandara. Later it was found that others too had quoted the same aphorism without, however, naming Purandara.
The publication of the TS and TSP (1926) was an epochmaking event in many respects.
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- Studies on the Carvaka/Lokayata , pp. 109 - 122Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011