Author Affiliation: Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences
摘要
In Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya, Ātman is occasionally identified with substance. This identification might have been a view of some early school of Vedānta. It can be traced from the early prose Upaniṣads until the middle of the first millennium C.E. The gold or clay analogy can be considered a typical means of illustrating this doctrine.
目次
Introduction 287 Dravya in the VP and in the Preceding Tradition 291 Ātman in the VP 293 Gold and Clay Comparisons in the Early Upaniṣads 294 Ātman and Dravya: Concluding Remarks 300
