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Detailed explanation-1: -Charvakas rejected many of the standard religious conceptions of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Ajivakas, such as an afterlife, reincarnation, samsara, karma and religious rites. They were critical of the Vedas, as well as Buddhist scriptures.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Charvaka argue that the self is nothing but the body as characterised by consciousness. The Charvaka denial of a substantial self is based on the epistemological position that perception is the only valid source of knowledge.

Detailed explanation-3: -(a) Carvaka: There are six valid sources of knowledge accepted by the different schools of Indian philosophy. ADVERTISEMENTS: These are perception, inference, comparison, verbal testimony, postulation and non-perception.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charvaka, also called Lokayata (Sanskrit: “Worldly Ones”), a philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, karma, liberation (moksha), the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Charvaka vision rejected all supernatural claims, all religious authority and scripture, the acceptance of inference and testimony in establishing truth, and any religious ritual or tradition. The essential tenets of the philosophy were: Direct perception as the only means of establishing and accepting any truth.