Charvaka

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Charvaka (Sanskrit: चार्वाक; IAST: Cārvāka), also known as Lokāyata, is an ancient Indian school of materialism. It is an example of the atheistic schools (specifically naturalistic and antisupernaturalistic) in the Ancient Indian philosophies.

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