Sarvatantrasiddhanta, Sarvatantrasiddhānta, Sarvatantra-siddhanta: 2 definitions
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Buddhist philosophy
Source: Google Books: A History of Indian Logic (Buddhist Philosophy)Sarvatantrasiddhānta (सर्वतन्त्रसिद्धान्त) or simply Sarvatantra refers to a “tenet accepted by all the schools” (within a debate), according to Upāyakauśalyahṛdaya, an ancient work on the art of debate composed by Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna.—The siddhānta (tenet, truth or conclusion) is of four kinds, viz. (1) that accepted by all the schools (sarvatantrasiddhānta), (2) that accepted by a particular school (pratitantra siddhānta), (3) that accepted hypothetically (adhikaraṇa siddhānta) and (4) that which is implied or accepted on assumption (abhyupagama siddhānta).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionarySarvatantrasiddhānta (सर्वतन्त्रसिद्धान्त):—[=sarva-tantra-siddhānta] [from sarva-tantra > sarva] m. a dogma admitted by all systems (opp. to pratitantra-s q.v.), [Caraka; Nyāya]
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.
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Partial matches: Sarvatantra, Siddhanta.
Full-text: Adhikaranasiddhanta, Sarvatantra, Adhikarana, Pratitantra, Abhyupagamasiddhanta, Pratitantrasiddhanta, Abhyupagama, Siddhanta.
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Philosophy of Charaka-samhita (by Asokan. G)
Dialectical terms (10): Tenet (siddhānta) < [Chapter 7 - Logic and Dialectical Speculations]
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 (by Surendranath Dasgupta)
Part 5 - Philosophy in the Nyāya sūtras < [Chapter VIII - The Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika Philosophy]
Charaka Samhita (English translation) (by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society)
Chapter 8 - The Treatment of Disease (roga-bhishaj-jiti-vimana) < [Vimanasthana (Vimana Sthana) — Section on Measure]