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Indian Philosophy: A Counter Perspective
Essays that reread the classical schools as open problems: the Vedas, the darshanas and the idea of moksha look different once one asks what arguments the texts actually make.
Introduction
Published in 1991, the book collects essays in which Daya Krishna developed the critique of “Three Myths”. He re-examines the Vedas, the Upaniṣads, the classification of the schools (darśanas) and the concept of mokṣa, and asks what problems the texts actually raise rather than what later tradition has made of them. He argues that much of what is presented as Indian philosophy is a construction of commentators and modern historians. The book is regarded as one of his major works and as a provocation to the historiography of Indian thought.
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- Three Myths about Indian Philosophy1966 · Daya Krishna
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