A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1This is mainly intended to give an exposition of Indian thought strictly on the basis of the original texts and commentaries. Occasionally, however, the author has sometimes discussed and borrowed the view of other writers in the assessment of chronological facts. Often the ground covered has been wholly new and the materials have been obtained by a direct and first-hand study of all available texts and manuscripts. The work appears in five volumes. Vol. I comprises Buddhist and Jaina Philosophy and the six systems of Hindu thought, viz.., Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta. It also contains the philosophy of the Yogavasistha, the Bhagavadgita and speculations in the medical schools. Vol. III contains an elaborate account of the Principal Dualistic and Pluralistic Systems such as the philosophy of the Pancaratra, Bhaskara, Yamuna, Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Vijnanabhiksu and philosophical speculations of some of the selected Puranas. Vol. IV deals with the Bhagavata Purana, Madhva and his School, Vallabha, Caitanya, Jiva Gosvami and Baladeva Vidyabhusana. Vol. V treats the Southern Schools of Saivism, viz., Saiva Siddhanta, Vira Saivism, philosophy of Srikantha. Saiva Philosophy in the Puranas and in some important texts. |
Contents
The Vedas and their antiquity 2 The place of the Vedas in the Hindu mind | 2 |
Classification of the Vedic literature | 3 |
The Samhitās | 4 |
The Brahmaņas | 5 |
The Aranyakas | 6 |
The RgVeda its civilization | 7 |
The Vedic gods | 8 |
Polytheism Henotheism and Monotheism | 9 |
The Doctrine of Nayas | 176 |
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Knowledge its value for us 9 The Doctrine of Syadvāda | 181 |
Theory of Perception | 183 |
NonPerceptual knowledge 172 173 173 175 176 179 | 185 |
Knowledge as Revelation | 186 |
The Jivas 15 Karma Theory 16 Karma Asrava and Nirjarā 17 Pudgala 18 Dharma Adharma Ākāśa 19 Kāla and Samaya | 198 |
Jaina Cosmography 21 Jaina Yoga | 199 |
Growth of a Monotheistic tendency Prajapati Viśvakarma II Brahma 12 Sacrifice the First Rudiments of the Law of Karma 13 CosmogonyMythologi... | 10 |
Place of Brahman in the Upanisads | 11 |
The World | 12 |
The WorldSoul | 13 |
The Theory of Causation | 14 |
Doctrine of Transmigration | 15 |
Emancipation | 16 |
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CHAPTER IV | 62 |
Growth of the Philosophic Literature | 65 |
The Indian systems of Philosophy | 67 |
Some fundamental points of agreement 1 The Karma theory | 71 |
The Doctrine of Mukti | 74 |
The Doctrine of Soul 5 The Pessimistic Attitude towards the World and the Optimistic | 75 |
The State of Philosophy in India before Buddha | 78 |
his Life | 81 |
Early Buddhist Literature | 82 |
The Doctrine of Causal Connection of early Buddhism | 84 |
The Khandhas | 93 |
Avijjā and Āsava | 99 |
Sila and Samādhi | 100 |
Kamma | 101 |
Upanisads and Buddhism PAGE | 111 |
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The Schools of Theravada Buddhism II Mahāyānism 13 The Madhyamika or the Sunyavada schoolNihilism 112 | 125 |
Uncompromising Idealism or the School of Vijñānavāda Buddhism | 145 |
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Sautrāntika theory of Perception 129 138 145 | 151 |
Sautrāntika theory of Inference | 155 |
The Doctrine of Momentariness | 158 |
The Doctrine of Momentariness and the Doctrine of Causal Efficiency Arthakriyākāritva | 163 |
Some Ontological Problems on which the Different Indian Systems diverged | 164 |
Brief Survey of the Evolution of Buddhist Thought | 166 |
CHAPTER VI | 169 |
Two Sects of Jainism | 170 |
The Canonical and other Literature of the Jains | 171 |
Some General Characteristics of the Jains | 172 |
Life of Mahāvīra The Fundamental Ideas of Jaina Ontology | 173 |
The Doctrine of Relative Pluralism Anekāntavāda | 175 |
Jaina Atheism 23 Mokşa emancipation | 207 |
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Causation as Satkāryavāda the theory that the effect potentially exists before it is generated by the movement of the cause | 257 |
Samkhya Atheism and Yoga Theism | 258 |
Buddhi and Purușa 20 The Cognitive Process and some characteristics of Citta | 261 |
Sorrow and its Dissolution 22 Citta | 265 |
Yoga Purificatory Practices Parikarma | 270 |
The Yoga Meditation | 271 |
CHAPTER VIII | 274 |
Criticism of Buddhism and Samkhya from the Nyāya standpoint 2 Nyaya and Vaiseṣika sūtras 3 Does Vaiśesika represent an old school of Mimämsā ... | 276 |
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The main doctrine of the NyayaVaiśeşika Philosophy | 310 |
Dravya Guņa Karma Sāmānya Viśeṣa Sama | 313 |
Faith in the end 75 | 317 |
The Theory of Causation | 319 |
Dissolution Pralaya and Creation Sṛşti | 323 |
Proof of the Existence of Isvara 323 13 The NyayaVaiśeşika Physics | 325 |
The four Pramāņas of Nyāya 14 The Origin of Knowledge Pramāņa 326 | 330 |
Perception Pratyakşa 332 17 Inference | 332 |
Upamana and Sabda | 333 |
The necessity of the Acquirement of debating devices for the seeker | 360 |
The Doctrine of Soul | 362 |
A Comparative Review | 367 |
The place of Senseorgans in Perception | 375 |
The Nature of Knowledge | 382 |
CHAPTER X | 406 |
Vedanta Literature | 418 |
Vedanta and Sankara 788820 A D | 429 |
The main idea of the Vedanta philosophy | 439 |
The nature of the worldappearance phenomena | 445 |
Unity in Indian Sadhana philosophical religious and ethical endeavours | 447 |
The Definition of Ajñāna nescience | 452 |
Anirvācyavāda and the Vedanta dialectic | 461 |
Vedanta theory of Perception and Inference | 470 |
Vedanta theory of Illusion 485 | 485 |
Vedanta and other Indian systems | 492 |
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