The arguments against the existence of Īśvara that are advanced by Śālikanātha’s Prakaraṇapañcikā are quite peculiar and cryptic, due to both the idiosyncratic nature and opaque style of Śālikanātha’s writing. This has contributed to the difficulty in identifying the actual nature of the views that Śālikanātha opposes. This article analyses the framework by which Śālikanātha interrogates the concept of Īśvara and discusses the possible sources of his arguments. It shows, contrary to the conclusions of past scholarship, that considerations of both Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika sources are certainly apparent in Śālikanātha’s formulation of his critique of Īśvara. This paper also discusses the possible sources from which Śālikanātha derives the notion of Īśvara as the creator of the Vedas. It concludes that rather than any Nyāya or Vaiśeṣika sources, it is most likely that Śālikanātha derives this notion of Īśvara from Kumārila, who potentially has Yoga opponent in mind.

liālikanātha的Prakaraṇapañcikā提出的反对Īśvara存在的论点由于Śālikanātha的作品既具有特质，又具有不透明的风格，因此它们是非常特殊和隐秘的。这导致难以确定沙里卡纳塔反对的观点的实际性质。本文分析了Śālikanātha审问Īśvara概念的框架，并讨论了其论点的可能来源。它表明，与以往学者的结论相反，在Śālikanātha对hisśvara的评论的表述中，对Nyāya和Vaiśeṣika资料来源的考虑都是显而易见的。本文还讨论了Śālikanātha推导Īśvara作为吠陀经创作者这一概念的可能来源。结论是，Śālikanātha最有可能不是从Nyāya或Vaiśeṣika的任何来历而来，而是从库马里拉（Kumārila）衍生出Īśvara的这一概念，