A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.772

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193 See Ca.Sū.11.17. Compare Ca.Vi.8.83, where two kinds of parīkṣā are recognized, pratyakṣa and anumāna, or three, if upadeśa (= āptopadeśa) is added; Cakrapāṇi refers in his comments to Ca.Vi.4.3, where rogaviśeṣavijñāna consists of three elements: āptopadeśa, pratyakṣa and anumāna; Cakra says that yukti is not mentioned separately in this passage because it is included in anumāna. Ca.Vi.4.5 accepts, exactly as Vi.8.83, two or three types of parīkṣā. Three types are found at Ca.I.1.3. Compare Jyotir Mitra (1982): 106–107; Y.K. Tripāṭhī (1987): 54–57. The Cārvākas regarded pratyakṣa as the only valid source of knowledge (Ca.Sū.11.6 refers to them as nāstikas); Vaiśeṣika and Buddhist philosophy admit two sources, pratyakṣa and anumāna; Sāmkhya adds śabda (verbal testimony) as the third source, while Nyāya