Tattvopaplavavāda of Jayarāśi and its Alleged Relation to the Cārvāka/Lokāyata

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya The Lion of Upsetting of all Principles (Tattvopaplava-siṃha) by Jayarāśibhaṭṭa has been claimed by some scholars to be the only surviving Cārvāka work. Others have challenged this view.i Since there is no external evidence to settle the question, the debate continues solely on the basis of internal evidence and intrinsic probability. No near-unanimous (total unanimity is seldom found) conclusion has been reached to date. Instead of summarizing the whole debate (which...

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The Home of the So-called Pythagorean Theorem: Babylonia, Mesopotamia, China, India,… Vardhan’s and Tharoor’s Claims Refuted

Ramkrishna Bhattacharya In a recent speech delivered before the scientists attending the 102nd edition of the Indian Science Congress, Dr. Harsh Vardhan is reported to have said: "Our scientists discovered the Pythagoras theorem but we very sophisticatedly [!] gave its credit to the Greeks' (The Times of India, 08 January 2015). Mr. Vardhan is not a non-entity; he is a Hindutvavadi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart and at present the Union Minister of Science and Technology. Mr. Shashi...

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