Using advanced multi-spectral imaging and AI-driven restoration, a team of international scholars has deciphered a cache of 4th-century birch bark scrolls found in the Gandhara region. The scrolls contain a debate between early Samkhya philosophers and the Yogacara school regarding the nature of external reality. The text argues that the physical world is a 'co-creation' of cosmic matter and individual consciousness.
This 'Philosophy of Mental Construction' (Vijnana-Matra) suggests that perception is not a passive reception of data but an active ethical act. The findings indicate that early Indian metaphysics had already developed highly nuanced theories of subjective idealism that anticipate modern phenomenological thought by nearly two millennia.