# Charvaka · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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Charvaka
Lokayata; Indian materialism
c.6th c. BCE – c.12th c. CE · Non-Theistic / Philosophical · Extinct · India
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
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- c.6th c. BCE Materialist positions circulating; Ajita Kesakambali in the Buddhist canon holds a comparable view.
- c.600 BCE–1200 CE Charvaka is listed as one of the standard schools every Indian philosopher was expected to refute, which is how we know it mattered.
- c.8th c. CE Jayarashi Bhatta's radical scepticism.
- c.12th–14th c. CE The school disappears; its texts are not copied.
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