Lokayata

[loh-kah-yuh-tuh]

noun

1. a materialistic school of philosophers in India that opposed Hinduism by regarding only matter as real, sense data as the only source of knowledge, and the gratification of the appetites as the only good.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Lokayata¹

From the Sanskrit word lokāyata

Example Sentences

Although Hauz Khas is brimming with tiny arts studios lorded over by Lokayata Art Gallery, with its rooftop, bus-size, fiberglass iguana, a more cutting-edge contemporary art scene is flowering a few blocks east of the Qutab Minar, amid the tire shops and hardware joints of the Lado Sarai neighborhood.

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And I knew the Sanskrit classics, including the Lokayata, which is of the materialist school.

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He seems to show that Lokâyata meant originally natural philosophy as a part of a Brahman's education and only gradually acquired a bad meaning.

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The Arthasâstra also recommends the Sânkhya, Yoga and Lokâyata systems.

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Kau@tilya in his Arthas'âstra when enumerating the philosophic sciences of study names Sâ@mkhya, Yoga, and Lokâyata.

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