[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana) › [General works and doxographies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all) › [Sarvadarshanasangraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha) › 1.55 # Sarvadarshanasangraha 1.55 Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 1.55 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.55) buddhipauruṣahīnānāṃ jīvikā dhātṛnirmitā //2// > There is no heaven, no final liberation, nor any soul in another world, > Nor do the actions of the four castes, orders, &c., produce any real effect. > The Agnihotra, the three Vedas, the ascetic's three staves, and smearing one's self with ashes, > Were made by Nature as the livelihood of those destitute of knowledge and manliness. > If a beast slain in the Jyotiṣṭoma rite will itself go to heaven, > Why then does not the sacrificer forthwith offer his own father?\[21\] > If the Śrāddha produces gratification to beings who are dead, > Then here, too, in the case of travellers when they start, it is needless to give provisions for the journey. > If beings in heaven are gratified by our offering the Śrāddha here, > Then why not give the food down below to those who are standing on the housetop? > While life remains let a man live happily, let him feed on ghee even though he runs in debt; > When once the body becomes ashes, how can it ever return again? > If he who departs from the body goes to another world, > How is it that he comes not back again, restless for love of his kindred? > Hence it is only as a means of livelihood that Brahmans have established here > All these ceremonies for the dead,—there is no other fruit anywhere. > The three authors of the Vedas were buffoons, knaves, and demons. > All the well-known formulæ of the pandits, jarpharī, turpharī, &c.\[22\] > And all the obscene rites for the queen commanded in the Aśvamedha, > These were invented by buffoons, and so all the various kinds of presents to the priests,\[23\] > While the eating of flesh was similarly commanded by night-prowling demons. > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy - [Previous: 1.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.54) - [Next: 1.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.56) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-cowell.1.p29) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.1.55) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Bārhaspatyasūtra (fragments)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.nastika.carvaka.brhaspatisutra*fragments.2.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.1.55) · Pramāṇa