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Purva-Mimamsa: Shruti, Shruti-Vakyas, Injunctions, Hymns, Names, Prohibitions, Explanatory Passages

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  • Vedas are divided into Mantras, Brahmanas, Aryanakas and Upanishads. Mantras and Brahmanas deal with karma-kanda which is accepted by Purva-Mimamsa.
  • As a result, Purva-Mimamsa is also known as Karma-Mimamsa. According to the school, liberation is possible via karma or action. The founder of Purva-Mimamsa school is Jaimini.
  • Jaimini accepts three pramanas or sources of knowledge, namely, perception, inference and verbal testimony.

Shruti

  • The main aim of Purva-Mimamsa school is to ascertain the nature of Dharma. Dharma according to them cannot be apprehended via the sense because it does not have a physical existence.
  • As a result, the pramanas such as inference, comparison, postulation, e…

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Purva-Mimamsa: The Concept of Sabdanitya-Vada & Jatisakti-Vada

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Purva-Mimamsa: The Concept of Sabdanitya-Vada

According to Jaimini, words are eternal, part-less and uncaused.

  • Sabdanitya-vada means the theory of eternality of words.
  • Words are not produced at any place or time because they transcend space and time.
  • Sabda (words) are not perceived sounds or dhvanis.
  • According to Jaimini, words are ever present, they are only spoken for the purpose of manifesting them to others.
  • They are beyond creation and destruction.

Purva-Mimamsa: Jatisakti-Vada

According to Jaimini, universals or jati are eternal.

  • Jati has the potency or sakti to manifest akritis or particulars. Hence, universals are different from particulars.
  • According to him, Sabda refers to jati or universals, alone.
  • There is an eternal con…

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