Carvakadarshana, Cārvākadarśana, Carvaka-darshana: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Cārvākadarśana can be transliterated into English as Carvakadarsana or Carvakadarshana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Charvakadarshana.
In Hinduism
General definition (in Hinduism)
Source: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale: The Epistemological Model of Vedantic Doxography According to the SarvadarśanasaṃgrahaCārvākadarśana (चार्वाकदर्शन) refers to the first chapter of the Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha (lit., “ompendium of all the darśanas”) by Mādhavācārya (fourteenth century CE) refers to the most famous text of the Saṃgraha literary genre dealing in 16 chapters with different darśanas or schools of Indian philosophy.—The first darśana is named cārvākadarśana and it treats of the system of the materialists, those who deny the authority of the Vedas, the moral mechanism of karman, and the existence of ātman, and consequently the mechanism of rebirth (saṃsāra). They are completely beyond the pale of the Vedas, the more external worldview with respect to smārta tradition. The chapter is a precious doxographical source, because it contains a lot of quotations from lost works of the cārvākas, a school that has severely suffered from a sort of damnatio memoriae, so that most of its basic texts have not been preserved (Bhattacharya 2013). [...]
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryCārvākadarśana (चार्वाकदर्शन):—[=cārvāka-darśana] [from cārvāka] n. the doctrine of Cārvāka, [Horace H. Wilson]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusCārvākadarśana (ಚಾರ್ವಾಕದರ್ಶನ):—[noun] one of the systems of Indian philosophy which denied the validity of any source of knowledge other than immediate sense-perception, denied the existence of god, soul, religious and moral values, believed to be founded by the sage ಚಾರ್ವಾಕ [carvaka]; the atheistic or materialistic philosophy.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Partial matches: Darshana, Carvaka.
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