[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) › 8.2 # Sarvadarshanasangraha 8.2 Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 8.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.2) tasyeyattāpi nyarūpi parīkṣakaiḥ — > Other Māheśvaras are dissatisfied with the views set out in the Śaiva system as erroneous in attributing to motiveless and insentient things causality (in regard to the bondage and liberation of transmigrating spirits). They therefore seek another system, and proclaim that the construction of the world (or series of environments of those spirits) is by the mere will of the Supreme Lord. They pronounce that this Supreme Lord, who is at once other than and the same with the several cognitions and cognita, who is identical with the transcendent self posited by one's own consciousness, by rational proof, and by revelation, and who possesses independence, that is, the power of witnessing all things without reference to aught ulterior, gives manifestation, in the mirror of one's own soul, to all entities\[1\] as if they were images reflected upon it. Thus looking upon recognition as a new method for the attainment of ends and of the highest end, available to all men alike, without any the slightest trouble and exertion, such as external and internal worship, suppression of the breath, and the like, these Māheśvaras set forth the system of recognition (pratyabhijñā). The extent of this system is thus described by one of their authorities— > — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy - [Previous: 8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.1) - [Next: 8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.3) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8) ## 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.8.p1) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.8.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.8.2) · Pramāṇa