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'''Srishti-drishti-vada ''' ([[Sanskrit]]: सृष्टिदृष्टिवाद; sṛīṣṭīdṛīṣṭivāda) or 'the doctrine of perception through creation', is the opponent school of [[drishti-srishti-vada]]. It affirms the world as the primary reality on which perception is dependent.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Das |first1=Tom |title=Ramana Maharshi – three theories of reality of the world (shristi-dristi vada, dristi-shristi vada/vivarta vada, ajata vada) |url=https://tomdas.com/2019/09/12/ramana-maharshi-three-theories-of-reality-shristi-dristi-vada-dristi-shristi-vada-ajata-vada/ |website=Tom Das |access-date=27 July 2022}}</ref> In short, if there were no real world, there would not be any perception of it either. It is regarded as the "common sense view of things".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waite |first1=Dennis |title=Answers... to the Difficult Questions: For Spiritual Seekers |date=2020 |publisher=John Hunt Publishing |location=Hampshire |isbn=9781789042207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoDWDwAAQBAJ&dq=srishti-drishti-vada&pg=PT426 |access-date=27 July 2022}}</ref> <br />
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==Terminology==<br />
''Srishti'' means "creation", ''drishti'' means "vision" or "perception" and ''vada'' means "philosophy" or "argument". Thus ''srishti-drishti-vada'' is the view that creation precedes perception; ''drishti-srishti-vada'' is the view that perception precedes creation.<br />
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== In Hermeneutics ==<br />
While ''drishti-srishti-vada'' is the idealist view of interpretation, ''srishti-drishti-vada'' is the realist view of interpretation.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marbaniang |first1=Domenic |title=Hermeneutics of Religion |journal=The Journal of Contemporary Christian |date=2013 |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=44 |url=https://www.academia.edu/38304338 |access-date=27 July 2022}}</ref> The former contends that what one sees defines reality, while the latter contends that what exists defines vision.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deshpande |first1=G.P. |title=Dialectics of Defeat |date=2006 |publisher=Seagull |location=Calcutta |page=124}}</ref> According to [[G.P. Deshpande]], one encounters this hermeneutical problem in any act of interpretation, especially of a text (which is ''srishti'' or artwork created by an author): "the director looks at it in a particular way, and the actor looks at it in a particular way" giving rise to a case of ''drishtisrishtivada''. He argues:<br />
<blockquote>The vision or the way the text is looked at ultimately decides its character. And that is why you have different productions of the same play, productions apparently using the same text but so different that they appear to be based on different texts.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deshpande |first1=G.P. |title=Dialectics of Defeat |date=2006 |publisher=Seagull |location=Calcutta |page=124}}</ref></blockquote><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Drishti-srishti-vada]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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