A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Prabhakara
This page describes Prabhakara which is located on page 529 of the second volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Concept of Mind in the Major Upanishads [by Gisha K. Narayanan]
Purvamimamsa consists of two schools namely Bhatta School and Prabhakara School. Kumarila Bhatta was the founder of Bhatta School of Mimamsa and Prabhakara was the founder of Prabhakara School of Mimamsa. Mimamsa accepts the existence of soul as the essence of human personality. This soul is entirely different from the body, sense and the buddhi. “Soul is the first factor of personality and includes mind. Mind is the internal sense organ by which the self can perceive its qualities....
Read full contents: 5. The Concept of Mind in Purvamimamsa
Anumana in Indian Philosophy [by Sangita Chakravarty]
There are two schools in Mimamsa system, viz. , Bhatta school and Prabhakara school. The Bhatta school was founded by Kumarila and the Prabhakara school was founded by Prabhakara Mishra. Both the schools admit the validity of knowledge, eternity of the Vedas, eternity of sounds and reject the concept of God as the creator of the world and the composer of the Vedas. Kumarila wrote several works, viz. , (i) Shlokavarttika, (ii) Tantravarttika and (iii) Tuptika....
Read full contents: Vedic schools (3): The Mimamsa-Vedanta
Mimamsa interpretation of Vedic Injunctions (Vidhi) [by Shreebas Debnath]
But the Prabhakara school admits that both the verbal urge and the objective urge can not be expressed by one and the same suffix. Because one optative suffix can not generate two knowledges. Prabhakaras say that all ‘akhyatas do not convey the meaning of ‘bhavana , but only the lin, lot etc. express it. Volition is expressed by these optative suffix only....
Read full contents: Chapter 2.7 - Kumarila Bhatta and Prabhakara Mishra on Vidhi
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