History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.206

v7.c93.206

7. *Svataḥ-prāmāṇya* (self-validity of cognition). It has already been stated that the *pramāṇas* are six (five according to Prabhākara). The P. M. system postulates that all cognitions as cognitions are intrinsically valid in themselves, do not require any extraneous help to establish their validity but invalidity of cognitions is (*parataḥ*) established extraneously by showing that there was defect in the organ that produced the cognition or it is established later on that a particular cognition was wrong.¹⁹⁶⁷ Prabhākara goes much further and holds that every experience as such is valid and no experience can be said to be wrong or illusory.