pramana
प्रमाण pramāṇaA valid means of knowledge. Nyaya accepts four: perception, inference, comparison and verbal testimony.
Where this term appears
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
Every Indian school had to say which pramanas , which sources of valid knowledge, it accepted.
- What is Nyaya? Philosophy
Each piece of valid knowledge comes through a pramana , an instrument or means of knowing, the way a measurement comes through an instrument of measure.
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
…es, quoted again and again by later Shakta and Sri Vidya writers as a pramana , a source you could cite to settle a question.
- What is Mimamsa? Philosophy
…r five The first great division between the two schools concerned the pramanas , the recognised means of valid knowledge, the question of exactly how many distinct doorways truth has into the mind.
- Who Was Ramanuja? Philosophy
Fourth and fifth, the knowing: by what valid means of knowledge, what pramana , is this cosmic ignorance ever established, when perception, inference and scripture all report a real and differentiated world?
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…goal or conducive to it (1.5), and then it names the five (1.6–1.11): pramana , valid cognition; viparyaya , error, a false idea not corresponding to its object; vikalpa , conceptual or verbal construction, a n…
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
Sircar, working from the Sanskrit, numbers it: three professors for the Rig, Yajus and Sama Vedas; five teachers for pada , vakya , pramana , sahitya and agama ; and a physician and a scribe.
- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
Prameya , the object known. Pramana , the means of knowing.