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Jayarasi an Ajnanika?

Jain commentator Silanka (writing in 9th century on Sutrakritanga) mentioned a group of philosophers known as Ajnanikavadin (Sceptics), or the followers of the doctrine of Ajnanikavada, or simply Ajñana. These philosophers believed in impossibility of knowledge, and prescribed the suspension of judgement as the best course of action. Jayarasi's work precedes or is contemporaneous to Silanka, and it is possible that Silanka had Jayarasi in his mind. The radical scepticism of Jayarasi's work seems to fall in line with Ajnanas rather than Carvaka. Is it possible that Jayarasi an Ajnanika? I am not sure if scholars have looked into it. It is impossible to describe Jayarasi as anything else other than a Sceptic. The question, however, is how much was he influenced by the earlier Sceptics like Sanjaya Belatthaputta, mentioned in Buddhist texts. Manoguru (talk) 21:46, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Most Extraordinary? Seems Biased to Me.

Don't get me wrong, it is a worthy installment from the reams of extraordinary contributions from India that are sadly almost completely unknown even among the 4D worms in Western Philosophy circles, but calling this work out of all the wonderful works of India's philosophical output most extraordinary is a little obviously bias. Sure the bias fits the secularism of the Western scholar with her even more jealous no-god replacing the jealous only God, but its wildly unfair to all the other wonderful contributions often a thousand years ahead of the West in reaching various conclusions to just single out this one, don't you think? ThomasLeonHighbaugh (talk) 17:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]