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परिचय

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.

संबंध

जिस पर आधारित

• मीमांसा सूत्रलगभग 200 ईसा पूर्व · जैमिनि

जिनकी आलोचना की

• वाक्यपदीयलगभग 490 · भर्तृहरि
• प्रमाणसमुच्चयलगभग 520 · दिङ्नाग

जिसमें आलोचना की गई

• तत्त्वसंग्रहलगभग 760 · शान्तरक्षित