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Cārvāka and Sanskrit
Sanskrit poems and plays like the Naiṣadha-carita, Prabodha-candrodaya, Āgama-dambara, Vidvanmoda-taraṅgiṇī and Kādambarī contain representations of the Cārvāka thought.

Cārvāka and atheist
The thoroughly materialistic and anti-religious philosophical Cārvāka school that originated in India with the Bārhaspatya-sūtras ( final centuries BCE ) is probably the most explicitly atheist school of philosophy in the region.

Cārvāka and philosophy
Also known as Lokāyata, it is a system of Hindu philosophy that assumes various forms of philosophical skepticism and religious indifference. It is named after its founder, Cārvāka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras.
* Cārvāka, an egoistic Indian philosophy
In Ancient Indian philosophy, materialism developed around 600 BC with the works of Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, Kanada, and the proponents of the Cārvāka school of philosophy.
The materialistic Cārvāka philosophy appears to have died out some time after 1400 AD.
Adherents of the heterodox Cārvāka or Lokāyata philosophy of India hold that this world is made of four elements only.
Cārvāka emerged as an alternative to the orthodox Hindu pro-Vedic Āstika schools, as well as a philosophical predecessor to subsequent or contemporaneous nāstika philosophies such as Ājīvika, Jainism and Buddhism ( the latter two later spinning off into what may be described today as separate religions ) in the classical period of Indian philosophy.
As opposed to other schools, the first principle of Cārvāka philosophy was the rejection of inference as a means to establish metaphysical truths.
The basic tenets of Cārvāka philosophy, of no soul and existence of four ( not five ) elements were probably inspired from him.
Although materialist schools existed before Cārvāka, it was the only school which systematized materialist philosophy by setting them down in the form of aphorisms in the 6th century.
E. W. Hopkins, in his The Ethics of India ( 1924 ) claims that Cārvāka philosophy was contemporaneous to Jainism and Buddhism, mentioning " the old Cārvāka or materialist of the 6th century BC ".
Cārvāka was a living philosophy up to the 12th century AD after which this system seems to have disappeared without leaving any trace.
Brihaspati is sometimes referred to as the founder of Cārvāka or Lokāyata philosophy.
The Cārvāka school of philosophy had a variety of atheistic and materialistic beliefs.
No independent works on Cārvāka philosophy can be found except for a few sūtras composed by Brihaspati.
One of the most important references to the Cārvāka philosophy is the Sarva-darśana-saṅgraha ( etymologically all-philosophy-collection ), a famous work of 14th century Advaita Vedanta philosopher Mādhava Vidyāraṇya from South India, which starts with a chapter on the Cārvāka system.
Whatever is written on Cārvāka post this is based on second-hand knowledge, learned from preceptors to disciples and no independent works on Cārvāka philosophy can be found.
Chatterjee and Datta explain that our understanding of Cārvāka philosophy is fragmentary, based largely on criticism of its ideas by other schools, and that it is not a living tradition:
These refutations are sources of Cārvāka philosophy since, they continued to be made even after all the authentic Cārvāka / Lokāyata texts had been lost.
* Bārhaspatya-sūtras, the foundational text of the Cārvāka school of philosophy.

Cārvāka and .
In India, the Ājīvika, Jain, and Cārvāka schools of atomism may date back to the 6th century BCE.
Cārvāka was an Indian hedonist school of thought that arose approximately 600 BCE, and died out in the 14th century CE.
When Madhavacharya compiled Sarva-darśana-samgraha ( a digest of all philosophies ) in the 14th century, he had no Cārvāka / Lokāyata text to quote from, or even refer to.
Cārvāka is classified as a heterodox Hindu ( Nāstika ) system.
The name Cārvāka was first used in the 7th century by the philosopher Purandara, who referred to his fellow materialists as " the Cārvākas ", and it was used by the 8th century philosophers Kamalaśīla and Haribhadra.
Adi Shankara, on the other hand, always used Lokāyata, not Cārvāka.
By the 8th century, the terms Cārvāka, Lokāyata, and Bārhaspatya were used interchangeably to signify materialism.
500 BC came to mean " skepticism " in general without yet being organized as a philosophical school, and that the name of a villain in the epic Mahabharata, Cārvāka, was attached to the position in order to disparage it.
The Cārvāka school thus appears to have gradually grown out of generic skepticism in the Mauryan period, but its existence as an organized body cannot be ascertained for times predating the 6th century.

Sanskrit and
In the Indo-European languages, some clitics can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European: for example, * is the original form of Sanskrit (- ca ), Greek τε (- te ), and Latin-que.
The word " cheetah " is derived from the Sanskrit word, meaning " variegated ", via the Hindi ' ी त ा' ( cītā ).
* Chin ( China ), or Sina ( Chinese 支那 ), old Chinese form of the Sanskrit name Cina ( ी न )
* Sanskrit: Yogācāra ( य ो ग ), Vijñānavāda ( ि ज नव द ), Vijñapti-mātra, Vijñapti-mātratā, or Cittamātra
A Pratyekabuddha ( Sanskrit: रत य े ब ु द ) or Paccekabuddha ( Pāli: पच े कब ु द ध ), literally " a lone buddha ", " a buddha on their own " or " a private buddha ", is one of three types of enlightened beings according to some schools of Buddhism.
Impermanence ( Pāli: अन ि anicca ; Sanskrit: अन ि त य anitya ; Tibetan: མ ི་​ ར ྟ ག ་​ པ ་ mi rtag pa ; Chinese: 無常 wúcháng ; Japanese: 無常 mujō ; Korean: 무상 musang ; Thai: อน ิ จจ ั ง anitchang, from Pali " aniccaŋ ") is one of the essential doctrines or three marks of existence in Buddhism.
Maricha or Mareecha ( Sanskrit: Mārīcha,,,, ) was a rakshasa who is described in several episodes of the Indian Ramayana epic.
Translated from Sanskrit आत मन ॊ म ो थम जगद ध ि त it means For one's own salvation, and for the good of the world ..
Mleccha ( from Vedic Sanskrit ल े छ, meaning " non-Vedic ", " barbarian "), also spelt as Mlechchha, referred to people of foreign extraction ( non-Aryans ) in ancient India.
The Sanskrit word Cina ( ी न IPA: / c ͡ çiːnə /), for China, was transcribed into various forms including 支那 ( Zhīnà ), 芝那 ( Zhīnà ), 脂那 ( Zhīnà ) and 至那 ( Zhìnà ).
Vichitravirya ( Sanskrit: ि ि त रव ी य, vicitravīrya ) was the younger son of queen Satyavatī and king Śaṅtanu in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
Nimbarka ( Sanskrit: ी न ि म य, Telugu: న ిం బ ా ర ్ క ా చ ా ర ్ య Śrī Nimbārkācārya ), is known for propagating the Vaishnava Theology of Dvaitadvaita, duality in unity.
The term is derived from the Sanskrit words candrá ( ं द ) " moon " and rā ́ tri ( ि) " night ".
Samarasa is one of four principal keywords and teachings of the Natha Tradition, the other three being ' svecchachara ' ( Sanskrit: ), ' sama ' ( Sanskrit: सम ), and ' sahaja ' ( Sanskrit: सहज ).
The name Saccidānanda, Satchidananda, or Sat-cit-ānanda ( Sanskrit: सच ि द न ं द ) is a compound of three Sanskrit words, Sat ( सत ्), Cit ( ि त ्), and Ānanda ( आन ं द ) ( the ā is of longer vocal length ), meaning essence, consciousness, and bliss, respectively.

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