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== परिचयः|| Introduction ==

== परिचयः|| Introduction ==

Samskrit literature abounds with hundreds of treatises pertaining to ancient Bharatiya Vijnana shastras of which more than half a dozen books provide us the information detailing how a scientific or methodical structure of a shastra is composed. Every shastra, irrespective of its subject matter, has been built using the principles of methodology of those shastra compositions, of which the teachers and students, the critics who expounded theoretical works on subjects, were required to be familiar with. A number of devices relating to words, structures and meanings related to the composition of a shastra are described in authoritative and famous texts as given below,

Samskrit literature abounds with hundreds of treatises pertaining to ancient Bharatiya Vijnana shastras of which more than a dozen books provide us the information detailing how a scientific or methodical structure of a shastra is composed. Every shastra, irrespective of its subject matter, has been built using the principles of methodology of those shastra compositions, of which the teachers and students, the critics who expounded theoretical works on subjects, were required to be familiar with.

 

All these works, belonging to divergent disciplines, portray the depth of Indian thinkers, who looked at the scientific treatises from all possible angles, critically examined the various conceptual aspects of the scientific works along without neglecting the subtle aspects. The ancient methodology for composing scientific theories have 95 constituents, as given by various scholars, which can be classified under the following heads<ref name=":0" />

All these works, belonging to divergent disciplines, portray the depth of Indian thinkers, who looked at the scientific treatises from all possible angles, critically examined the various conceptual aspects of the scientific works along without neglecting the subtle aspects. The lesser known fact is that these great Indian thinkers after a thorough research, in-depth comprehensive study of the shastras available to them, formulated a methodology for building scientific theories having 95 constituents, namely

* तन्त्रयुक्तयः (''tantrayuktayaḥ)'' ॥ 36 Tantrayuktis  

* तन्त्रयुक्तयः (''tantrayuktayaḥ)'' ॥ 36 Tantrayuktis  

* व्याख्यानि (''vyākhyāni)'' ॥ 15 Vyakhyas   

* व्याख्यानि (''vyākhyāni)'' ॥ 15 Vyakhyas   

* कल्पनाः (''kalpanāḥ)'' ॥ 7 Kalpanas

* कल्पनाः (''kalpanāḥ)'' ॥ 7 Kalpanas

* आश्रयानि (''āśrayāni)''॥ 20 Ashrayas

* आश्रयानि (''āśrayāni)''॥ 20 Ashrayas

* ताच्छील्यानि (''tācchīlyāni)''॥  17 Taatchilyas  

* ताच्छील्यानि (''tācchīlyāni)''॥17 Taatchilyas  

A brief introduction of the above given various elements of writing and presentation of shastras will be undertaken in this topic.<ref name=":0" />

A brief introduction of the above [[Shastra Rachana Paddhati (शास्त्ररचनापद्धतिः)|shastra rachana paddhatis]] contain various elements of writing and presentation of shastras, and of them the most important, Tantrayukti will be undertaken in this topic.

 

 

It is also expressed in the meaning of 'to compose', 'to write' as per The Student's Sanskrit English Dictionary by V. S. Apte. The traditional definition of the word tantra given in Sarvatantra siddhanta padarthalakshana sangraha by Bhikshu Gaurishankara<ref name=":0" />is as follows<blockquote>तनोति विपुलानर्थान् तत्वमन्त्रसमन्वितान् | त्राणं च कुरुते यस्मात् तन्त्रमित्यभिधीयते ||</blockquote><blockquote>''Thus tantra is that which holds the diffused elements or the expanse of a subject; it is one in which are interwoven different thoughts and theories concerning a scientific subject.''<ref name=":0" /></blockquote>Charaka samhita

== Tantrayukti ==

== तन्त्रयुक्तिः ॥ Tantrayukti ==

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