 He however accepts that the text is an important secondary source for Cārvāka.According to Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, "Jayarāśi, who claims to be intellectually superior to Bṛhaspati, could ... hardly be a follower of Bṛhaspati himself, i.e., could hardly be the leader of any imaginary offshoot of the Cārvāka or Bārhaspatya system".In support of his view that "Tattvopaplavasimha" is not a Cārvāka/Lokāyata text, Chattopadhyaya says "it is moreover necessary to remember that Jayarāśi claims as his final achievement the annihilation of the vanity of the "Pāṣaṇḍin [pākhaṇḍin]"-s ("Tattvopaplavasiṃha" Baroda edition p.125).