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Categorisation in indian PhilosoPhy dialogues in south asian traditions: religion, PhilosoPhy, literature and history Series Editors laurie Patton, duke university, usa Brian Black, lancaster university, uK Face-to-face conversation and dialogue are defining features of South Asian traditional texts, rituals and practices. Not only has the region of South Asia always consisted of a multiplicity of peoples and cultures in communication with each other, but also performed and written dialogues have been indelible features within the religions of South Asia; Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Islam are all multi-vocal religions. Their doctrines, practices, and institutions have never had only one voice of authority, and dialogue has been a shared tactic for negotiating contesting interpretations within each tradition. This series examines the use of the dialogical genre in South Asian religious and cultural traditions. Historical inquiries into the plurality of religious identity in South Asia, particularly when constructed by the dialogical genre, are crucial in an age when, as Amartya Sen has recently observed, singular identities seem to hold more destructive sway than multiple ones. This series will approach dialogue in its widest sense, including discussion, debate, argument, conversation, communication, confrontation, and negotiation. it will aim to open up a dynamic historical and literary mode of analysis, which assumes the plural dimensions of religious identities and communities from the start. In this way the series aims to challenge many outdated assumptions and representations of South Asian religions. Categorisation in Indian Philosophy Thinking Inside the Box Edited by JeSSIcA FrAzIer Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK and University of Kent, UK © Jessica Frazier and the contributors 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Jessica Frazier has asserted her right under the copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry Street Union road Suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, VT 05401-3818 Surrey, GU9 7PT USA england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: categorisation in Indian philosophy : thinking inside the box / edited by Jessica Frazier. pages cm. – (Dialogues in South Asian traditions: religion, philosophy, literature, and history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4094-4690-3 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4094-4691-0 (ebook) – ISBN 978- 1-4094-7455-5 (epub) 1. Indian philosophy. 2. categories (Philosophy) I. Frazier, Jessica, 1975- editor of compilation. B5131.c38 2014 181'.4–dc23 2013051042 ISBN 9781409446903 (hbk) ISBN 9781409446910 (ebk – PDF) ISBN 9781409474555 (ebk – ePUB) V Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1HD Contents List of Figures vii Contributors ix Foreword: Remarks on the Philosophical Use of Categories by Gavin Flood xi Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xv 1 Introduction: The Importance of ‘Thinking Inside the Box’ 1 Jessica Frazier 2 Vyākaraṇa: Bhāva as the Ultimate Category 11 Eivind Kahrs 3 Nyāya: Pramāṇa (Knowledge-Generators) as Natural Kinds 27 Stephen Phillips 4 Sāṃkhya: The Analysis of Experience in Classical Sāṃkhya 41 Mikel Burley 5 Vedānta: Metaphors for the Category of Existence 59 Jessica Frazier 6 Early Vaiśeṣika: The Concept of Categories in Vaiśeṣika Philosophy 89 Shashiprabha Kumar 7 Later Vaiśeṣika: The ‘Seven Category Ontology’ Reaffirmed 101 Jonardon Ganeri 8 Madhyamaka: Conventional Categories in Madhyamaka Philosophy 115 Jan Westerhoff 9 Jainism: From Ontology to Taxonomy in the Jaina Colonisation of the Universe 133 W.J. Johnson vi Categorisation in Indian Philosophy 10 Historical Perspectives: The Origin of Categories in Indian Philosophy 147 Johannes Bronkhorst 11 The Order of Things: The Goals and Categories of Categorisation in India 153 Jessica Frazier Bibliography 163 Appendices 177 Index 187 List of Figures 4.1 Prakṛti and the emergent principles, understood as an analysis of experience (arrows indicate direction of synchronic conditionality rather than material causation) 58 7.1 The Vaiśeṣika world 109 This page has been left blank intentionally Contributors Johannes Bronkhorst is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lausanne. Mikel Burley is Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford, and Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Jessica Frazier is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent, and Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Religious Studies. Jonardon Ganeri is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, Brighton, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne and Visiting Professor at Kyunghee University, Seoul. W.J. Johnson is Reader in Indian Religions at Cardiff University. Eivind Kahrs is Reader in Sanskrit at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens’ College. Shashiprabha Kumar is Professor and Chairperson of the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Stephen Phillips is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Jan Westerhoff is Lecturer in Religious Ethics and Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.

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