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A quote attributed to Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa, which is actually from Arcaṭa

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Krishna Del Toso*
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Email: [email protected] In loving memory of Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
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Abstract

On the basis of textual scrutiny and intertextual comparisons, this study highlights that Vādidevasūri's attribution of a quotation to the Cārvāka/Lokāyata philosopher Udbhaṭabhaṭṭa in the Syādvādaratnākara is, in fact, part of a broader passage sourced from Arcaṭa's Hetubinduṭīkā and, consequently, its expungement from the corpus of source material attributed to the Cārvāka/Lokāyata authors is suggested.

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CārvākaLokāyataUdbhaṭabhaṭṭaVādidevasūriArcaṭaQuotation identificationSource material analysis
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Del Toso, Krishna. 2023. “Bhāviveka and Avalokitavrata on the two so-called non-cause theories (ahetuvāda) of the Lokāyatikas”, Indo-Iranian Journal 66, 1–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Freschi, Elisa. 2010. What do Sacred Texts Teach? Mīmāṃsā Views on Exhortation, Duty, Language, Exegesis and Sacrifice, Including a Critical Edition and Translation of Rāmānujācārya's Tantrarahasya, Śāstraprameyapariccheda. Online: https://www.academia.edu/348760/What_do_Sacred_Texts_teachGoogle Scholar
Goodman, Charles. 2022. The Tattvasaṃgraha of Śāntarakṣita. Selected Metaphysical Chapters. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
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Shaw, Jaysankar Lal. 2002. “Causality: Sāṃkhya, Bauddha and Nyāya”, Journal of Indian Philosophy 30, 213–70.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Solomon, Esther A. 1977–78. “Bhaṭṭa Udbhaṭa”, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 58–9, 986–7.Google Scholar