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tarkika-mimamsaka, yata mayavadi-gana
sankhya, patanjala, smrti, purana, agama
SYNONYMS
tarkika—logicians; mimamsaka—followers of Mimamsa philosophy; yata—all; mayavadi-gana—followers of Sankaracarya; sankhya—followers of Kapila; patanjala—followers of mystic yoga; smrti—supplementary Vedic literature; purana—Puranas; agama—the tantra-sastras.
There are many kinds of philosophers.
Some are logicians who follow Gautama or Kanada.
Some follow the Mimamsa philosophy of Jaimini.
Some follow the Mayavada philosophy of Sankaracarya, and others follow Kapila’s Sankhya philosophy or the mystic yoga system of Patanjali.
Some follow the smrti-sastra composed of twenty religious scriptures, and others follow the Puranas and the tantra-sastra.
In this way there are many different types of philosophers.