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Brahma Sutras

The Brahma Sūtras (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मसूत्राणि), also known as the Vedanta Sūtra (Sanskrit: वेदान्त सूत्र), or as Shariraka Sūtra, and Bhikshu-sūtra (latter two in monastic traditions), are a Sanskrit text which criticizes the metaphysical dualism of the influential Samkhya philosophy, and instead synthesizes and harmonizes divergent Upanishadic ideas and pr…

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PrasthanatrayiYogaShvetashvatara UpanishadWoofSruti
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Buddhisminstance ofas well as heterodox schools0.80text
Jainisminstance ofas well as heterodox schools0.80text
Lochtefeld suggesting that the text was composed sometime between 500instance ofwith scholars0.80text
200 BCEinstance ofwith scholars0.80text
while Sarvepalli Radhakrishnaninstance ofwith scholars0.80text
Dasgupta independently suggest the 2nd century BCE as more likelyinstance ofwith scholars0.80text
Sunyavadainstance ofPaul Deussen places it between 200 BCE and 400 CE.Hermann Jacobi in early 20th century suggested that Madhyamaka Buddhist concepts0.80text
acknowledged in the Brahma Sūtrasinstance ofPaul Deussen places it between 200 BCE and 400 CE.Hermann Jacobi in early 20th century suggested that Madhyamaka Buddhist concepts0.80text
may be a late inventioninstance ofPaul Deussen places it between 200 BCE and 400 CE.Hermann Jacobi in early 20th century suggested that Madhyamaka Buddhist concepts0.80text
and suggests that both Sunyavadainstance ofPaul Deussen places it between 200 BCE and 400 CE.Hermann Jacobi in early 20th century suggested that Madhyamaka Buddhist concepts0.80text
Brahma Sūtras may therefore have emerged between 200instance ofPaul Deussen places it between 200 BCE and 400 CE.Hermann Jacobi in early 20th century suggested that Madhyamaka Buddhist concepts0.80text
450 CEinstance ofPaul Deussen places it between 200 BCE and 400 CE.Hermann Jacobi in early 20th century suggested that Madhyamaka Buddhist concepts0.80text

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