TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dasgupta, Surendranath
TI  - A history of Indian philosophy
SN  - 9788120804128
U1  - 181.4 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - M .B. Pub.
N1  - THE VEDAS, BRAHMANAS AND THEIR PHILOSOPHY
1 The Vedas and their antiquity . . •
2 The place of the Vedas in the Hindu mind
3 Classification of the Vedic literature
4 The Samhitas .
5 The Brahmaijas
6 The Aranyakas .
7 The Eg-Veda, its civilization
8 The Vedic gods
9 Polytheism, Henotheism, and Monotheism
ID Growth of a Monotheistic tendency; Prajapati, Visvakarma
11 Brahma
12 Sacrifice ; the First Rudiments of the Law of Karma
13 Cosmogony—Mythological and Philosophical.
14 Eschatology; the Doctrine of Atman
15 Conclusion
THE EARLIER UPANISADS (700 B.C—600 B.C.)
1 The place of the Upani^ads in Vedic literature
2 The names of the Upanisads; Non-Brahmanic influenc*
3 Brahmanas and the Early Upanisads
4 The meaning of the word Upanisad
5 The composition and growth of diverse Upanisad
6 Revival of Upanisad studies in modem times .
7 The Upanisads and their interpretations . . .
8 The quest after Brahman; the struggle and the failures .
9 Unknowability of Brahman and the Negative Method
10 The Atman doctrine . . . .
n Place of Brahman in the Upani§ads .
12 The World
13 The World-Soul
14 The Theory of Causation .
15 Doctrine of Transmigration
16 Emancipation
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE SYSTEMS
OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
1 In what sense is a Histo^ of Indian Philosophy possible?
2 Growth of the Philosophic Literature
3 The Indian systems of Philosophy .
4 Some fundamental points of agreement
1 The Karma theory
2 The Doctrine of Mukti
3 The Doctrine of Soul. . . . .
5 The Pessimistic Attitude towards the World and the Optimistic
Faith in the end . . • . . . • • n  . •
6 Unity in Indian Sadhana (philosophical, religious and ethical
endeavours)
BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY
1 The State of Philosophy in India before Buddha
2 Buddha : his Life n  .
3 Early Buddhist Literature
4 The Doctrine of Causal Connection of early Buddhism
5 The Khandhas .
6 Avijja and Asava
7 Sila and Samadhi
8 Kamma
9 Upanisads and Buddhism
ID The Schools of Theravada Buddhism
11 Mahayanism
12 The Tathata Philosophy of Asvaghosa (8oa.d.) .
13 The Madhyamika or the Sunyavada school—Nihilism- . . .
14 Uncompromising Idealism or the School of Vijnanavada Buddhism
1.5 Sautrantika theory of Perception
16 Sautrantika theory of Inference
17 The Doctrine of Momentariness • r 1
18 The Doctrine of Momentariness and the Doctrine of - Causal
Efficiency (Arthakriyakaritva) . . . • \ r- '
19 Some Ontological Problems on which the Different Indian Systems
diverged . . . • •
20 Brief Survey of the Evolution of Buddhist Thought
THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY
1 The Origin of Jainism
2 Two Sects of Jainism . . • • . •
3 The Canonical and other Literature of the Jains
4 Some General Characteristics of the Jains
5 Life of Mahavira
6 The Fundamental Ideas of Jaina Ontology
7 The Doctrine of Relative Pluralism (Anekantavada;
8 The Doctrine of Nayas
9 The Doctrine of Syadvada
ID Knowledge, its value for us
11 Theory of Perception
12 Non-Perceptual knowledge
13 Knowledge as Revelation .
14 The Jivas . . . .
15 Karma Theory . ;
16 Karma, Asrava and Nirjara
17 Pudgala . • .
18 Dharma, Adharma, Akasa
19 Kala and Samaya
20 Jaina Cosmography .
21 Jaina Yoga
22 Jaina Atheism .
23 Moksa (emancipation)
THE KAPILA AND THE PATANJALA SAMKHYA (YOGA)
1 A Review
2 The Germs of Samkhya in the Upanisads
3 Samkhya and Yoga Literature .
4 An Early School of Samkhya .
5 Samkhya karika, Samkhya sutra, Vacaspati Mis'ra and Vijnana
Bhiksu
6 Yoga and Patanjali .
7 The Samkhya and the Yoga doctrine of Soul or Purusa
8 Thought and Matter. . .
9 Feelings, the LTltimate Substances
10 The Gunas
11 Prakrti and its evolution
12 Pralaya and the disturbance of the Prakrti Equilibrium
13 Mahat and Aharnkara . . . '
14 The Tanmatras and the Paramaijus
15 Principle of Causation and Conservation ot linergy
16 Change as the formation of new collocations .
17 Causation as Satkaryavada (the theory th5it the effect potentially
exists before it is generated by the movement of the cause)
18 Samkhya Atheism and Yoga Theism
19 Buddhi and Purusa . . . .
20 The Cognitive Process and some characteristics of Citta
21 Sorrow and its Dissolution
22 Citta
23 Yoga Purificatory Practices (Parikarma)
24 The Yoga Meditation
THE NYAYA-VAISESIKA PHILOSOPHY
1 Criticism of Buddhism and Samkhya from the Nyaya standpoint .
2 Nyaya and Vaisesika sutras ! . . . .
3 Does Vaisesika represent an old school of Mimamsa ?
4 Philosophy in the Vaisesika sutras .
5 Philosophy in the Nyaya sutras
6 Philosophy of Nyaya sutras and Vaisesika sutras .
7 The Vaise§ika and Nyaya Literature " . . .
8 The main doctrine of the Nyaya-Vai^esika Philosophy
9 The six Padarthas: Dravya, Guna, Karma, Samanya, ViSesa, Samavaya
10 The Theory of Causation .
11 Dissolution (Pralaya) and Creation (Srsti)
12 Proof of the Existence of I5vara
13 The Nyaya-Vaile§ika Physics .
14 The Origin of Knowledge (Pramapa)
15 The four Pramanas of Nyaya
16 Perception (Pratyak§a)
17 Inference . . . .
18 Upamana and ^abda
19 Negation in Nyaya-Vaisesika
20 The necessity of the Acquirement 01 aeoatmg devices for the seeker
of Salvation
21 The Doctrine of Soul
22 Ilvara and Salvation
mimAi^sA philosophy
1 A Comparative Review
2 The Mimamsa Literature .
3 The Paratah-pramapya doctrine of Nyaya and the Svatah-pramanya
doctrine of Mimarnsa . . . .
4 The place of Sense-organs in Perception .
5 Indeterminate and Determinate Perception . . . . .
6 Some Ontological Problems connected with the Doctrine of Per
ception . . . .
7 The Nature of Knowledge
8 The Psychology of Illusion
9 Inference . . . .
10 Upamana, Arthapatti
11 Sabda-pramana . . . .
12 The Pramana of Non-perception (anupalabdhi)
13 Self, Salvation, and God
14 Mimaipsa as Philosophy and Mimarpsa as Ritualism
THE ^ANKARA SCHOOL OF VEDANTA
1 Comprehension of the Philosophical Issues more essential than the
Dialectic of Controversy . . . .
2 The philosophical situation: a Review .
3 Vedanta Literature . . . n  .
4 Vedanta in G^udapada . . . .
5 Vedanta and Sankara (788—820 A.D.)
6 The main idea of the Vedanta philosophy
7 In what sense is the world-appearance false? .
8 The nature of the world-appearance, phenomena
9 The Definition of Ajnana (nescience)
10 Ajnana established by Perception and Inference
11 Locus and Object of Ajnana, Ahaipkara and Antahkarana
12 Anirvacyavada and the Vedanta dialectic
13 The Theory of Causation . . . .
14 Yedanta theory of Perception and Inference
15 Atman, Jiva, Isvara, Ekajlvavada and Dr§tisrftivada
16 Vedanta theory of Illusion . . *
17 Vedanta Ethics and VedSnta Emancipation
18 Vedanta and other Indian systems
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