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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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