The Knowledge Tradition of Ancient India

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The Knowledge Tradition of ancient India is a very unique and well-developed system. It teaches to
understand every object from macro to micro level. The objects to be known are Pādārtha Vijñāna-Natural
Philosophy, Mano Vijñāna- Psychology, Ātma Vijñāna- Science of the knowledge or soul and Tatva
Vijñāna-Science of the knowledge of elements. Pramāṇa Vijñāna- Epistemology is used to examine and to
know regarding all the above- mentioned objects. The knowledge of all these is required to achieve the
Purushartha (four aims of life)- Dharma (righteous path), Artha (wealth), Kāṃa (desires) and
Moksha(liberty). There are specific features mentioned for a science which is to be learnt, teacher and
student. The whole paper details regarding the subjects and objects of the knowledge tradition of ancient
India

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].

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    For Code: 091599

  • Version of record

    v1.0

  • Issue date

    21 June 2019

  • Language

    en

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