A school centered on the interpretation of Vedic ritual injunctions, holding scripture to carry authority independent of any author, human or divine.
Mimamsa — more fully, Purva Mimamsa, "prior inquiry" — is a school devoted to the careful interpretation of Vedic ritual injunctions, and to a striking claim about the nature of scriptural authority that sets it apart from most other traditions treated in this archive.
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The oldest layer of Vedic literature — a large collection of hymns preserved orally for centuries before being written down.
A cluster of ideas around duty, order, and right conduct that is understood differently across Indian traditions.
An early Vedic term for cosmic order — the deep regularity of nature and truth that later concepts of dharma partly inherit.
A long, debated era associated with the composition and transmission of the earliest layers of Vedic literature.
A family of interpretive schools centered on the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.