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Mīmāṃsā Summary
945 words, approx. 3 pages
MĪMĀṂSĀ. The word mīmāṃsā means "investigation" in ordinary Sanskrit. Since the term is applied to an important South Asian philosophical school, it must originally have meant...
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Mimamsa Information
1,306 words, approx. 4 pages
Mīmāṃsā, a Sanskrit word meaning "investigation" (compare Greek ἱστορία), is the name of an astika ("orthodox") school of Hindu philosophy whose primary enquiry is into the nature of dharma based on close hermeneutics of the Vedas. Its...


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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Studies in Mimamsa. (book reviews)
01/01/1998: 541 words, approx. 2 pages
Edited by R. C. DWIVEDI. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1994. Pp. xvi + 453. Rs 395. These essays, edited by the late R. C. Dwivedi, honor Dr. Mandan Misra, at the time of publication the Vice-Chancellor of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha,...
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Philosophy East and West
The context principle of meaning in Prabhakara Mimamsa.
04/01/1994: 12,950 words, approx. 43 pages
Mimamsa provides an influential theory of language within Indian philosophy. According to this theory, the sentence is the basic unit of language, with words as secondary units. Meaning is determined by the context of the sentence as a whole, according to Prabhakara. Language provides...
 


 

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