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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
PREFACE TO THE CONTENTS
OF VOL. XII.
The manuscripts described in this volume (Nos. 6755-7412) fall under two main classes (i.e.) Pūryamimams and Uttaramimãmsā (Advaita.) The M88. on Pūrvam māmsā, are described in Nos. 6755-7007.
The Parvamimăm să as well as the Uttaram māmsā have as their main thesis the elucidation of the pbilosophy of the Vedas but they differ in this that the former restricts itself to the philosophy of ritualism whereas the latter confines itself to the philosophy of the soul. The two systeins were regarded as forming & unitary system ap to a certain stage, when they became divided into two distinct but allied systems of thought.
JAIMINI.
It was Jaimini, the sage that systematised the principles of Pūrvam māmsâ and gave them a definite shape in the form of the extant sūtras distributed over 12 chapters. He is variously placed in the first few centuries of the Christian Era by some of the latter-day critics, though he should have lived somewhere about the 5th century B,C. The Sütras of Jaimini are described in No. 6766.
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