“…Besides their materialist and antireligious perspective, the Cārvākas are also often believed to have advocated a vulgar hedonism that valorized a life of unrestrained sensualist excess (Riepe 1956;Shastri 1957, 30-6). Recent scholarship, however, has shown that the evidence is not decisive on this view (Bhattacharya 2011, 201-2).…”