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Kumarila Bhatta Quotes on Truth

Kumarila Bhatta was an Indian Sanskrit philosopher and the principal exponent of the Bhatta sub-school of Mimamsa, the Vedic school of ritual exegesis and epistemology. This page collects quotes attributed to Kumarila Bhatta on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Kumarila Bhatta:

    “The Vedas are eternal, authorless, and self-validating.”

  • Attributed to Kumarila Bhatta:

    “Words have a natural relation to their meanings.”

  • Attributed to Kumarila Bhatta:

    “All cognition reveals its own truth, unless overridden.”

  • Attributed to Kumarila Bhatta:

    “The world is real, and not a dream of consciousness.”