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them; there is no awareness after death. 22 Whether or not Jayantabhatta, Maladhāri Hemacandrasūri and Sāyana-Madhava were conversant with Jinabhadra's work and took the cuc from him, the sact remains that all of them have cited the same Br. Up. passage in their exposition of the Cārvāka view.23 Sāyana-Madhava even says that the Lokāyatika-s quote the sruti for this (sc. intelligence is produced from the four elements only when they are transformed into the body) and then cites the passage from Br. Up. (In this connection E.B. Cowell noted : 'Of course Sankara, in his commentary, gives a very different interpretation applying it to the cessation of individual existence once the knowledge of the Supreme is attained. 24 He also proposed a comparison of this passage with the commentary on the Jaimini-sūtra, 1.1.5.).
In course of presenting the exponent's view (TS. v. 1871) śāntaraksita said : 'As regards "the other world", there is no such other world apart from the "chain of causes and effects, in the form of cognition and the rest".25 Kamalasila in his commentary then contradicts it by saying: "This is exactly as you (Cārvākas) who are addicted to merely perceptible pleasures apply the name "other world" to some other parts of the visible world, as is declared in such assertions as : "Man consists of only as much as is within the scope of the senses;" and again: 'The other world consists in another place, another time or another state" 26
Sīlānka, too, describes the Cārvākas as saying that there is no such thing as the self (jiva) which is extra-material and capable of
22. Instead of following Sankara's commentary (which gives an idealistic
twist to this passage) I have given a literal translation as done by Mrinal
Kanti Gangopadhyaya (In C/L, p. 157). 23. See NM, Part 2, Ch. 4, p. 114; GV Comm. p. 10 (on 1. v. 5 (1553)), and
SDS, Ch. 1, p. 3. 24. C/L, p. 255 14. 25. See TS, p. 637. I have quoted from the translation by Ganganatha Jha,
reprinted in C/L p. 167. 26. TS, p. 637; C/L, p. 168 (Instead of Materialists', I have opted for Cārvāka
s'). While the first sentence quoted by Kamalasila has long been recognized as a genuine Bärhaspatya (Carvāka) fragment, the second one quoted by him escaped the attention of both D.R. Shastri and Mamoru Namai. See my article "Five More Barhaspatya Fragments", Indian Skeptic, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1999, pp. 16-18 (revised version of an earlier article, "Five More Barhaspatya Aphorisms", The Journal of the Indian Academy of Philosophy, Vol. xxxv Nos. 1 & 2, 1996, pp. 66-68).
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