شلوكافارتيكا (Ślokavārttika)

مقدمة

A long verse commentary on the opening, philosophical section (tarkapada) of Shabara’s commentary on the Mimamsa Sutra, written in the seventh century by Kumarila Bhatta, founder of the Bhatta school of Mimamsa. Kumarila defends the “intrinsic validity” (svatah pramanya) of cognition: every cognition counts as true unless defeated by contrary evidence, so the Veda, which has no author whose faults could undermine it, needs no external proof. He argues for a real external world against Buddhist idealism, against the Buddhist theory of meaning as “exclusion” (apoha) and against the possibility of an omniscient person such as the Buddha. Buddhist philosophers such as Shantarakshita replied to him in detail.

الصلات

يستند إلى

• ميمامسا سوترانحو 200 ق.م · جايميني

ينتقد

• فاكيابادية (Vākyapadīya)نحو 490 · بهارتريهاري
• برامانا سموتشايا (Pramāṇasamuccaya)نحو 520 · ديجناجا

انتُقد في

• تاتفاسانغراها (Tattvasaṅgraha)نحو 760 · شانتاراكشيتا