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Dzieła

• ok. 200 p.n.e.Mimamsa Sutra

  Dwanaście ksiąg reguł interpretacji nakazów wedyjskich: dharma jest tym, co nakazuje Weda.

Stanowisko

Mimamsa (“investigation”) begins with the words “Now, therefore, the inquiry into dharma.” Dharma – right ritual and duty – cannot be known by perception or reasoning, only through the injunctions of the Veda. The Veda has no author, human or divine, and the bond between word and meaning is eternal; so it cannot be distorted by an author’s ignorance or deceit. A ritual brings about its distant fruit through an unseen potency (apurva). The sutra lays down rules of interpretation: how to tell principal from subsidiary acts and injunction from praise, and how to resolve contradictions. These rules shaped Indian law and Vedanta; Shabara and later Kumarila Bhatta continued the school.

Życie i kontekst

Jaimini is the traditional author of the Mimamsa Sutra; legend makes him a pupil of Vyasa, the mythical arranger of the Vedas. Nothing certain is known of his life. The sutra, the longest of the classical philosophical sutras, gathers older traditions of Vedic ritual exegesis and is usually placed somewhere between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE; its dating is disputed.