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Shad Darshanas (षड्दर्शनानि) (view source)
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Shad Darshanas षड्दर्शनानि
The Six Darsanas (Shad Darshanas, Sanskrit षड्दर्शनानि) are the intellectual section of the Hindu writings. They are schools of philosophy based on the Vedas. <ref>Swami Sivananda, All About Hinduism, Page 47-51</ref>
<blockquote>कणादेन तु संप्रोक्तं शास्त्रं वैशेषिकं महत् । गौतमेन तथा न्यायं सांख्यं तु कपिलेन वै ॥ </blockquote><blockquote>kaṇādena tu saṃproktaṃ śāstraṃ vaiśeṣikaṃ mahat । gautamena tathā nyāyaṃ sāṃkhyaṃ tu kapilena vai ॥ </blockquote>Meaning : The great Vaisheshika shastra has been given by Kanada, while the Nyaya shastra was elucidated by Gautama Rishi, and Sankhya shastra was by Kapila Rishi.
<blockquote>कणादेन तु संप्रोक्तं शास्त्रं वैशेषिकं महत् । गौतमेन तथा न्यायं सांख्यं तु कपिलेन वै ॥ </blockquote><blockquote>kaṇādena tu saṃproktaṃ śāstraṃ vaiśeṣikaṃ mahat । gautamena tathā nyāyaṃ sāṃkhyaṃ tu kapilena vai ॥ </blockquote>Meaning : The great Vaisheshika shastra has been given by Kanada, while the Nyaya shastra was elucidated by Gautama Rishi, and Sankhya shastra was by Kapila Rishi.
# पूर्वमीमांसा || Poorva Mimamsa
# पूर्वमीमांसा || Poorva Mimamsa
# उत्तरमीमांसा || Uttara Mimamsa or वेदान्त || Vedanta.
# उत्तरमीमांसा || Uttara Mimamsa or वेदान्त || Vedanta.
== Detailed Discussion ==
Indian Philosophy has six Aastika schools called the Shad-darsana--the six Darsanas or ways of seeing things, usually
called the
different schools of thought. Thy six systems or six are the
six instruments of try schools of philosophy teaching or the six demonstrations
of Truth. Each sci_001 has developed, systematised and correlated the var.
parts of the Veda in has its own way. Each system ha 7' lta the one great Rishi
who systematised the Sutrakara, i.e., doctrines of the school and put them in
short aphorisms or Sutras. The Sutras are terse and laconic. The Rishis have
condensed their thoughts in the aphorisms. it is very difficult to understand
them without the help of commentaries by great sages or Rishis. Hence, there arose
many commentators or Bhashyakaras There are glosses, notes and, later,
commentaries on the original commentaries. The Shad-Darsanas (the six schools
of philosophy) or the Shat-Sastras are: the NYAYA, founded by Gautama Rishi,
the VAISESHIKA by Kanada Rishi, the SANKHYA by Kapila Muni, the YOGA by
Patanjali Maharshi, the PURVA MIMAMSA by Jaimini, and the UTTARA MIMAMSA or
VEDANTA by Badarayana or Vyasa. The Darsanas are divided into three pairs of
aphoristic compositions which explain the philosophy of the Vedas in a
rationalistic method of approach. They are: the Nyaya and the Vaiseshika, the
Sankhya and the Yoga, and the Mimamsa and the Vedanta. Each set of Sutras has
got its Bhashya, Vritti, Vaartika, Vyakhyanc or Tika and Tippani.
Sutra Svalpaksharam-asandigdham Saravad-visvatomukham
Astobham-anavadyam cha Sutram sutravido viduh A Sutra or an aphorism is a short
formula with the east possible number of letters, without any ambiguity ►r. doubtful assertion,
containing the very essence, j
HINDU SCRIPTURES
embracing all meanings, Without any stop or obstruction and
absolutely faultless in nature. The Sutrakara or the composer of the aphorisms
is said to be as happy as one would be while getting the first male child, if
he is but able to reduce one letter in his abstruse Sutra of far-fetched words
and ideas. The best example of the greatest, the tersest and the most perfect
of Sutra literature is the series of aphorisms called the Ashtadhyayi composed
by Panini. Panini is the father of all Sutrakaras from whom all others seem to
have borrowed the method of composition. The Sutras are meant to explain a big
volume of knowledge in short assertions suitable to be kept in memory at all
times. The six Vedangas and the six systems of Hindu philosophy form the twelve
sets of Sutra literature of the world. In addition to these, there are later
compositions like the Narada-Bhakti Sutras, the Sandilya-Bhakti Sutras, etc.,
which also wish to assume an equal form with the famous Sutras mentioned above.