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Lokayata

American

[loh-kah-yuh-tuh] / loʊˈkɑ jə tə /

noun

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.

From the Sanskrit word lokāyata

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Lokayata

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

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2019

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