The
Mimamsa Sutra 4.1.1 reads athatah kratvarthapurusarthayor jijnasa--"Next, the desire to know what is kratvartha and what is purusartha." This terse statement is explained by the fifth-century commentator, Sahara.
For instance, the paper on communication theory not only consists of 'mainstream' Western communication theories, but also indigenous theories or theoretical insights including that of
Mimamsa philosophy, Bharata Muni's Natyashastra, Bhartrihari's Vakyapadiya, and so on.
In other words, Ganges argues that the
Mimamsa logical theory assumes more than is warranted by facts.
The thrust of the book is to counter-pose, on the one hand, the Vedantic tradition which accepts the authority of the Vedas and encompasses the six orthodox schools of Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesjka,
Mimamsa and Vedanta; against, on the other hand, the Buddhist schools.
But this contrast seems unfair regarding Hinduism as a whole; in serious exegetical traditions such as
Mimamsa, the lack of a single teaching authority is more than balanced by rigorous canons of interpretation that leave little to human whimsy.
KOCHER, K.C., PRATAP, V., 1972, Anxiety Level of Yogic Practice, Yoga
Mimamsa 15: 11.
It is very difficult for a lay reader, even trained in philosophy to understand the complex inter-relation between the varied metaphysical theories upheld by such prominent schools of thought like Sankhya,
Mimamsa or Vedanta.
One of Clooney's specialties is the study of the
Mimamsa school of Vedanta, the subject of his 1990 book Thinking Ritually.
The Purva
Mimamsa tells us that scriptural statement (sriti)
Moreover, in the system of Nyaya and
Mimamsa, we split a word into prakrti & Pratyaya (verbal / nominal stem + suffix) and assign a meaning to each elements and both together give the "understanding" being logically / appropriately related by a relation.
The darsana that supplied the metaphysics and philosophy of action is known as
Mimamsa. This school of thought, based on earlier parts of the Vedas, viewed the world as being real but did not accept the existence of God.
Eastern philosophies which have grappled with the problem of Truth and Reality for millennia have evolved methods of inquiry like Nyaya,
Mimamsa and Vedanta.
Clooney's subsequent overview of Vedanta has three important strengths: its insistence upon defining Vedanta as a theological, not a philosophical discourse; its emphasis upon the importance of textual reading as a means of liberation, and its argument that Vedanta is dependent not only upon Upanisadic texts, but also upon Purva
Mimamsa, a ritual philosophy that provides the epistemological prerequisites for Vedantan discourse.
