Purva-Mimamsa: Shruti, Shruti-Vakyas, Injunctions, Hymns, Names, Prohibitions

• 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 D…

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Purva-Mimamsa: The Concept of Sabdanitya-Vada

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 s…

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Classification of Perception

Nyaya School Perception

For Nyaya school perception is of two kinds:

• Laukika perception
• Alaukika perception

These two are also known as, ordinary perception and extra-ordinary perception.

• According to Nyayaikas, the distinction between these two depends upon the way the senses encountered their objects.
• In the case of laukika or ordinary perception, there is the usual sense-object contact.
• In the case of alaukika or extra-ordinary perception, the object is not ordinarily presented to the sense organ. In ot…

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