Chapters
The ''Tattva-saṃgraha'' has twenty-six chapters on the following topics: # The Sāṃkhya doctrine of primordial matter (''prakṛti'') as the source of the physical world # Various doctrines of God as the source of the world # The doctrine of inherent natures (''svabhāva'') as the source of the world # Bhartṛhari’s doctrine of Brahman-as-language as the source of the world # The Sāṃkhya-Yoga doctrine of human spirit (''puruṣa'') # Examination of the doctrines of the self (''ātman'') in the Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā, Sāṃkhya, Digambara Jaina, Advaita and Buddhist personalist (''pudgalavādin'') schools # The doctrine of the permanence of things # Various doctrines of karma and its ripening # A critical examination of substance # A critical examination of quality # A critical examination of action # A critical examination of universals # A critical examination of particularity # A critical examination of inherence (the relation between universals and particulars and between substances and qualities) # An examination of words and their meanings # An examination of sense perception # An examination of inference # An examination of other means of acquiring knowledge # A critical examination of Jaina epistemology # An examination of time # A critical examination of materialism # On the external world (that is, the world external to consciousness) # A critical examination of revelation as a source of knowledge # Examination of the idea that some propositions are self-validating # Examination of the notion of supernormal powersReferences
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