Sarvadarshanasangraha 1.17

English (machine translation) 1.17

Language: English

1.17

—adhering to this popular verse, regarding only wealth and pleasure as the aims of human existence in accordance with the treatises on statecraft and erotics, and denying any otherworldly object, are observed in fact to follow the doctrine of Cārvāka. For this very reason, that doctrine of Cārvāka has another, literally meaningful name: Lokāyata.

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The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English

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Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha — Mādhava, Sanskrit