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Samkhya or Sankhya (/ˈsɑːŋkjə/; Sanskrit: सांख्य, romanized: Sāṅkhya) is a dualistic orthodox school of Hindu philosophy. It views reality as composed of two independent principles, Puruṣa ('consciousness' or spirit) and Prakṛti (nature or matter, including the human mind and emotions).
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samkhya | Samkhya | Kapila | 1.00 | infobox |
| Samkhya | Secular | Valluvar | 1.00 | infobox |
| Samkhya | Vaisheshika | Kaṇāda, Prashastapada | 1.00 | infobox |
| Samkhya | Yoga | Patanjali | 1.00 | infobox |
| Samkhya | is a | philosophy of India | 0.90 | text |
| Samkhya | is a | greater emphasis on suffering | 0.90 | text |
| intellect | instance of | identifies itself with products of Prakṛti | 0.80 | text |
| the Vedas | instance of | These early non-Samkhya speculations and proto-Samkhya ideas are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures | 0.80 | text |
| early Upanishads such as the Chandogya Upanishad | instance of | These early non-Samkhya speculations and proto-Samkhya ideas are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures | 0.80 | text |
| and the Bhagavad Gita | instance of | These early non-Samkhya speculations and proto-Samkhya ideas are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures | 0.80 | text |
| Sāṁkhyapravacana Sūtra in verse no | instance of | Samkhya theorists argue that an unchanging God cannot be the source of an ever-changing world and that God was only a necessary metaphysical assumption demanded by circumstances… | 0.80 | text |
| Vyasa | instance of | While Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and Georg Feuerstein believe that Yoga was a tradition common to many Indian schools and its association with Samkhya was artificially foisted upon it… | 0.80 | text |
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