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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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Carvaka rejects the testimony as a pramana or valid source of knowledge. Testimony consists of words (sabda). So far as words are heard through our ears, they are perceived. Knowledge of words is, therefore, knowledge through perception and is quite valid.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charvaka School Direct perception, empiricism, and conditional inference are appropriate forms of knowledge by Charvaka, who also accepts philosophical scepticism and condemns ritualism and supernaturalism. Brihaspati is the originator of Charvaka or Lokayata philosophy, according to legend.