Kṛṣnamiṡra’s Prabodhacandrodya – A Critical Introduction
Sita K Nambiar We earlier posted certain sections of Krsna Misra’s 11th century allegorical drama, Prabodhacandrodya, in which the character Cārvāka makes an appearance. Though Prabodhacandrodaya does caricature Carvaka/Lokayta philosophy, the play is an important source of our present day knowledge about materialist philosophy in ancient India. We now reproduce parts of the critical introduction…