Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s4.1
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s4.1
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Cārvākas are criticized in *Arthaśāstra*, *Tattvaṭīkā*, *Kāmasūtra*, *Rāmāyaṇa*, *Mahābhārata*²¹ and Purāṇas like *Viṣṇu*²² and *Padma*.²³ *Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya* and *Śāstrārthavārtāsamuccaya* of Haribhadra, *Tattavasaṁgraha* and *Prabodhacandrodaya*, and several Buddhist works like Samantaphalasutta and Payasisuttanta. Philosophers like Āryadeva, Śāntarakṣita, Śaṅkarācārya, Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, Kamalaśīla, Vācaspati Miśra, Bhāskarācārya and Varadarāja, present critiques of Cārvāka philosophy. The Cārvāka is referred in several works as a *pūrva-pakṣa* (prima facie view), viz. the *Śaṅkarabhāṣya* of *Brahmasūtra*,²⁴ *Tattvasaṁgrahapañjikā* of Kamalaśīla, *Vivaraṇaprameyasaṁgraha*, *Nyāyamañjarī*, chap. I of *Sarvasiddhāntasaṁgraha*, *Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya* and *Naiṣadhacarita* of Śrīharṣa, etc.
Linked texts (18)
- Padmapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Nyāyamañjarī — Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Tattvasaṃgraha — Śāntarakṣita, Sanskrit
- Naiṣadhīyacarita — Śrīharṣa, Sanskrit
- དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བསྡུས་པའི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ — Classical Tibetan
- Pāyāsisutta — Pāli
- Sāmaññaphalasutta — Pāli
- Sarvasiddhāntasaṅgraha — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Brahmasūtra — Bādarāyaṇa, Sanskrit
- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Kāmasūtra — Vātsyāyana Mallanāga, Sanskrit
- Viṣṇupurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa — Vālmīki, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍanakhaṇḍakhādya — Śrīharṣa, Sanskrit
- Vivaraṇaprameyasaṅgraha — Mādhava, Sanskrit
- Prabodhacandrodaya — Kṛṣṇamiśra, Sanskrit
- Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya — Haribhadra Sūri, Sanskrit