Who Are the lokāyatika brāhmaṇas?

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_269
dc.title	Who Are the lokāyatika brāhmaṇas?
dc.contributor.author	Bhattacharya Ramkrishna
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2017/1/who-are-the-lokayatika-brahmanas/
dc.description.abstract	The paper seeks to identify the lokāyatika brāhmaṇas mentioned in the Tipiṭaka and concludes, after comparing a reference to the lokāyatika brāhmaṇa in the Rāmāyaṇa, that the word lokāyatika in both the contexts refers to an argumentative brāhmaṇa, not a materialist.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 53 \| June 2017
dc.issued	2017-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2016-03-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2015-11-16
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-3042/AnnOr-53-17-6
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Lokāyata
dc.subject	Lokāyata
dc.subject	Lokāyatika brāhmaṇas
dc.subject	Lokāyatika brāhmaṇas
dc.subject	Materialism
dc.subject	Materialism

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Who Are the lokāyatika brāhmaṇas?

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Pavlov Institute, Calcutta, India

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abstract

The paper seeks to identify the lokāyatika brāhmaṇas mentioned in the Tipiṭaka and concludes, after comparing a reference to the lokāyatika brāhmaṇa in the Rāmāyaṇa, that the word lokāyatika in both the contexts refers to an argumentative brāhmaṇa, not a materialist.

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June 20, 2017

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March 4, 2016

Submitted

Nov. 16, 2015

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Keywords: Lokāyata • Materialism • Lokāyatika brāhmaṇas

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