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Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
Overview
Kumarila Bhatta (IAST: Kumārila Bhaṭṭa; fl. roughly 7th century CE) was a Hindu philosopher and a scholar of Mimamsa school of philosophy from early medieval India. He wrote three subcommentaries on Sabara's commentary on Jaimini's Purva Mimamsa Sutras, namely the Ślokavārttika, Tantravarttika and Tuptika. Bhaṭṭa was a staunch believer in the supreme validity of Vedic injunction, a champion of Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā and a confirmed ritualist. His philosophy is classified by some scholars as existential realism.
Kumārila is also credited with the logical formulation of the Mimamsic belief that the Vedas are unauthored (apauruṣeyā). In particular, he is known for his defense of Vedic ritualism against medieval Buddhist idealism. His work strongly influenced other schools of Indian philosophy, with the exception that while Mimamsa considers the Upanishads to be subservient to the Vedas, the Vedanta school does not think so.
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Effect proceeds from cause, yet, on the other hand, this last is not independent, but goes back into universal cause. General destruction is postulated along with what is called the creation of the three worlds. Just as the tortoise stretches out its limbs and then draws them back again within its shell, the five elements, earth, &c., which constitute the three worlds, are in the general ruin and dissolution of…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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The second point where we will contend with Kapila is with regard to his idea of God. Just as this series of limited manifestations of Nature, beginning with the individual intellect and ending with the individual body, requires the Self behind as the ruler and governor on the throne, so in the Cosmos, we must enquire what the universal Intelligence, the universal Mind, the universal fine and gross materials have as…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
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The first Brahmins must either have experienced violent discords, or at least have seen them in heaven. It is a very astonishing phenomenon for a society of men who have never made war to have invented a species of war made in the imaginary spaces, or in a globe distant from ours, or in what is called the "firmament," the "empyrean." But it must be carefully observed that in this revolt of celestial beings against…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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Philosophers who discussed Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
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- Bhartṛhari
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- Dharmakirti
- Coherence theory of truth
- Nalanda mahavihara
- Historical Vedic religion
- Āstika and nāstika
- Holism
- Pali Canon
- Floruit
- Tamil language
- Infinite regress
- Mīmāṃsā
- Indian philosophy
- Buddhism
- The Buddha
- Jerry Fodor
- International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
- Purva Mimamsa Sutras
- Sautrāntika
- Cosmological argument
Place in the tradition
Part of Conventionalism.