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The '''Six Orthodox Hindu Schools''' — the most common grouping of orthodox Hindu schools. After some [[Shramana]] movements like Buddhism and [[Jain|Jainism]] gained strength, Hindu scholars began to define some schools as orthodox (Skt. ''āstika'') and some as heterodox (Skt. ''nāstika''). As long as one accepted the revelatory status of the [[Vedas]], and the cast system, the school was considered orthodox. There have been many debates about the exact classifications. For example, some schools asserted the [[Buddha]] to be an incarnation of [[Vishnu]]. However, the most common list of orthodox schools consist of the following six: 

*[[Samkhya]] (Skt. ''sāṃkhya''; Tib. [[གྲངས་ཅན་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''grangs can pa'')
*[[Yoga]] (Skt.) 
*[[Vaisheshika]] (Skt. ''Vaiśeṣika''; Tib. [[བྱེ་བྲག་པ་]], Wyl. ''bye brag pa'')
*[[Naiyayika|Nyaya]] (Skt. ''Nyāya''; Tib. རིག་པ་ཅན་པ་, Wyl. ''rig pa can pa'')
*[[Mimamsaka]] (Skt. ''Mīmāṃsaka''; Tib. [[དཔྱོད་པ་བ་]], Wyl. ''dpyod pa ba'')
*[[Vedanta]] (Skt. ''Vedānta'')

The Samkhya and Yoga schools share a common metaphysics in their earliest writings, Nyaya and Vaisheshika both deal with logic and proto-science, and Mimamsa and Vedanta are based on the interpretation of Vedic literature.<ref>See Hillary Rodrigues, ''Introducing Hinduism'' (New York: Routledge, 2006), 193. </ref> Buddhist, Jain and [[Charvaka]] schools were considered heterodox.

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