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Carvaka
Carvaka, also frequently transliterated as Charvaka, and also known as Lokayata, is a thoroughly materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India. ...

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Carvaka, also frequently transliterated as Charvaka, and also known as Lokayata, is a thoroughly materialist and atheist school of thought with ancient roots in India.
This may be termed the Carvaka Philosophy for which modern evidence has recently come to light from Mohenjo-daro and Harappa.
While summarising the Carvaka position in Sarvadarsanasangraha Sankara, the main exponent of Advaita Vedanta, the Hindu sage Adi Sankara, stated that those having self-respect undertake farming and other means of creating real property.
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