The Vedānta school built upon the teachings of the Upanishads and Brahma Sutras from the first millennium BCE and is the most developed and well-known of the Hindu schools. The epistemology of the Vedantins included, depending on the sub-school, five or six methods as proper and reliable means of gaining any form of knowledge: pratyakṣa (perception), anumāṇa (inference), upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts). Each of these have been further categorized in terms of conditionality, completeness, confidence and possibility of error, by each sub-school of Vedanta. COUNT 5
QSN1 On which sutras did the Vedanta school focus? ANS1 Upanishads and Brahma QSN2 In what time did the Vedanta school become active? ANS2 first millennium BCE QSN3 Which is the most developed and well known of the Hindu schools? ANS3 Vedānta QSN4 How many ways did the Vedantins have of gaining knowledge? ANS4 five or six methods QSN5 On what was dependent for the choice of methods in gaining knowledge? ANS5 sub-school