The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

257 - The Various Systems of Beliefs
(6) Il-valakku, asserting as existent that which does not exist, as in
speaking of the horns of a rabbit understandable only by the use of the
expression, and not by actual existence of the thing connoted by the
word;
(7) Uṇarndadai-Uṇardal feeling that which is plainly felt by
experience, such as attempting to prove that fire is destructive of mist,
and
(8) Ninaippu, [192] perception by assumption, such as taking a couple
to be one’s father and mother on the statement of others.
Six are the systems that are founded on the basis of these instruments
of knowledge; (1) Lōkāyata, (2) Bauddha, (3) Sāṁkhya, (4)
Nayyāyika, (5) Vaiśēṣika, and (6) Mīmāṁsa.
Jina, (3) Kapila, (4) Akṣapāda, (5), Kāṇāda, and (6) Jaimini.
Truth is ascertained by means of Pratyakṣa, (2) Anumāna, (3) Sātta
(Sans. Sābda otherwise Āgama), (4) Upamāna, (5) Arthāpatti and (6)
Abhāva. These are the instruments of knowledge accepted as such at
the present time.’
Śaivavādī, Brahmavādī and Vēdavādī
Passing on from him, she went to the Śaivavādī. In response to her
enquiry that he might explain his system, he stated the two lights (the
sun and the moon), the doer and the five elements constitute the basis
from out of which human beings are made by combination of life and
body. He who does this is constituted of the Kālas; his nature it is to
create beings as an act of play, and he destroys them and thus gets rid