A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c35.20

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The Chárváka view :—Among the Chárvákas there were two classes, the cruder school of materialists who accepted perception (प्रत्यक्ष) as a valid source of knowledge, as well as the reality of Natural Law (स्वभाव), and the finer school of sceptics, who impugned all kinds of knowledge, immediate as well as mediate, and all evidence, Perception as well as Inference, *vide* Jayanta's reference in the Nyáya-Manjarí to सुशिक्षितचार्व्वाकाः ; also चार्व्वाकधूर्त्तस्तु यथातथ्यं व्याख्यास्य इति प्रतिज्ञाय प्रमाणप्रमेयसंख्यालक्षणनियममशक्यकरणीयमेव व्याख्यातवान्—A'hnika I, Manjarí.