Samkhya-nasaka Madhava

A Samkhya thinker is referred to in Buddhist, Mimämsä and Nyɛya works as Samkhya-Nahaka or Samkhya-Nayaka This means that he was either an 'unfaithful exponent' of Samkhya doctrines to which much berm must have been done by his views, or he was a great Samkhya exponent We may note some such references to Madhava (a)

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सॉलोमन पूछती हैं कि माधव को 'सांख्यनाशक' क्यों कहा गया। दिङ्नाग के प्रमाणसमुच्चय तथा जिनेन्द्रबुद्धि की टीका से वे उनके उस मत का पुनर्निर्माण करती हैं कि प्रत्येक इन्द्रिय के अपने पृथक् गुण हैं, सर्वत्र वही तीन गुण नहीं; साथ ही मीमांसा और न्याय के उल्लेख संकलित करती हैं। Solomon asks why Madhava was called the destroyer of Samkhya. From the Pramanasamuccaya of Dinnaga and the commentary of Jinendrabuddhi she reconstructs his heresy, that each sense has its own distinct gunas rather than the three shared by everything, and collects the Mimamsa and Nyaya notices.

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