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# Sarvadarshanasangraha 12.75

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 12.75

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [12.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.12.75)

tasmād utpattau jñaptau ca paratastve pramāṇasaṃbhavāt svataḥsiddhaṃ prāmāṇyam ity etat pūtikūṣmāṇḍāyata iti cet —

> "Therefore, as we can prove that authoritativeness is both produced and recognised by means of something external, the Mīmāṃsā tenet that 'authoritativeness is self-proved' is like a gourd overripe and rotten."  
> — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

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## 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.12.p34) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English
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