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Question 1

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Write short answers to the following in about 150 words each:

How does Mimamsa establish the authority of Vedic knowledge?

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Question 2

Appeared in Year: 2020

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Write a short answer to the following in about 150 words;

Why is memory not a valid knowledge according to Mimamsa?

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Question 3

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Does the admission of svayamprakasavada necessary lead to the admission of swathpramanyavada? Discuss after the Naiyayikas, the Mimamsakas and the Advaita Vedantins.

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Parmanyavada relates to validity of knowledge in Indian philosophy as to whether knowledge is itself valid, or requires some extraneous sources to validate itself.

Its two forms are: Svatah-Parmanyavada and Pratah-Parmanyavada

According to Sankara and Mimamsa

  • According to Advaita Vedanta, nature and validity of knowledge is that of Svaprakasa-vada and…

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Question 4

Appeared in Year: 2019

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Write short answers to the following in about 150 words

How does Mimamsa establish the authority of Vedic Knowledge?

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Question 5

Appeared in Year: 2022

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How do Mimamsakas refute the Nyaya view that Implication (arthapatti) is reducible to Inference (anumana) and establish Implication as an independent means of valid knowledge (pramana) ? Critically discuss. (Paper I)

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Presumption or Implication or Arthapatti is recognised as an additional and an independent source of knowledge by both Kumarila and the Prabhakara school of Purva-Mimamsa. Arthapatti is the process by means of which we assume something that will satisfactorily explain an observed discrepancy in experience and is often referred to as ‘inverted infer…

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Question 6

Appeared in Year: 2022

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In spite of accepting the intrinsic validity of knowledge, why and how Prabhakar and Kumarila differ in their interpretation of erroneous cognition? Discuss. (Paper I)

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Kumarila՚s account of khyati (error) differs from Prabhakara as Kumarila maintained error is not non-apprehension or akhyati but misapprehension or viparitakhyati. “Viparita” refers to “contrary” or “opposite” and altogether “Viparitakhyati” means “contrary judgement.” According to this error theory, in error the referent is mis-described. Error is…

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