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Samkhya

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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Samkhya
Kapila
Secular
Valluvar
Vaisheshika
Kaṇāda, Prashastapada
Yoga
Patanjali

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related to Further reading · 33
Samkhya → An Indian Metaphysics, An Interpretation, An Introduction, Chapter Six, Classical Samkhya, Classical Sāṃkhya, Experience, Fowler, Gerald James Larson, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, ISBN, Iswara Krishna's Samkhya Karika, Its History, Jeaneane, Jens Lauschke, Longmans Green And Co, Max Müller, Meaning, Michel Hulin
related to Epistemology · 32
Samkhya → Anumana, Anumāna, Anupalabdi, Arthāpatti, Avyabhicara, Avyapadesya, Carvaka, Dṛṣṭam, External, For, Further, He, Hindu, Hiriyanna, In, Indian, Indriyarthasannikarsa, It, Observing, Other
related to External links · 28
Samkhya → An Introduction, Bradley, Dan Lusthaus, Dowden, EnglishBibliography, Ferenc Ruzsa, Fieser, GeorgiaPDF, Hindu Studies, Internet Encyclopedia, Ishwarkrishna's Sankhyakarika, ISSN, James, June, Karl Potter, OCLC, Oxford UniversitySamkhya, Philosophy, Prakriti, Purusha
related to Tantra · 23
Samkhya → According, Bagchi, Dasgupta, However, Jacobsen, Kali, Knut, Professor, Purusha, Religious Studies, Samkhya Karika, Samkhyan, Shaiva Siddhanta, Shiva, Sri Lakshmi, Srivaishnavism, Sāmkhya, Tantra, Tantras, Tantric
related to Causality · 21
Samkhya → According, Another, But, Evolution, In, Jiva, Moola-Prakṛti, More, Parināma, Prakṛti, Prakṛti-Parināma Vāda, Primordial Matter, Sat-kārya-vāda, Satkāryavāda, Since, Sāmkhya, The, The Samkhya, There, This
related to Samkhya revival · 21
Samkhya → According, Anirruddha, CE, Charaka Samhita, Commentaries, In, Indian, It, Laghusāṁkhyasūtravṛtti, Mahādeva, Nāgeśa, Samkhya Sastra, Sarvadarsanasangraha, Surendranath Dasgupta, Sāṁkhyapravacanabhāṣya, Sāṁkhyasūtravṛtti, The, The Sāṁkhyapravacana Sūtra, Vijnana Bhiksu, Vijñānabhikṣu
related to Arguments against Ishvara's existence · 18
Samkhya → According, Because, Despite, Even, For, Furthermore, God, God's, He, However, If, Moreover, Now, Samkhya's, Sinha, Such, The, Vedas
related to Advaita Vedanta · 13
Samkhya → According, Adi Shankara, Although, He, Intelligent Brahman, Pradhan, Prakṛti, Samkhyakarika, Shankara, The Advaita Vedanta, Vedanta, Vedas, Vedic
related to Yoga · 13
Samkhya → Brahmasūtrabhaśya, Bronkhorst, CE, Eric Frauwallner, Georg Feuerstein, However, Indian, Isvara, Johannes Bronkhorst, The Yoga, Vyasa, While Jakob Wilhelm Hauer, Yoga
related to Etymology · 12
Samkhya → Although, CE, Hinduism, In, Indian, Puruṣa, Sanskrit, Sāṃkhya, Tattva, Tattvas, The, The Samkhya

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prakṛti puruṣa yoga philosophy ce according schools school indian upanishads god early bce one ancient also knowledge mind ascetic thought

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SamkhyaSamkhyaKapila1.00infobox
SamkhyaSecularValluvar1.00infobox
SamkhyaVaisheshikaKaṇāda, Prashastapada1.00infobox
SamkhyaYogaPatanjali1.00infobox
Samkhyais aphilosophy of India0.90text
Samkhyais agreater emphasis on suffering0.90text
intellectinstance ofidentifies itself with products of Prakṛti0.80text
the Vedasinstance ofThese early non-Samkhya speculations and proto-Samkhya ideas are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures0.80text
early Upanishads such as the Chandogya Upanishadinstance ofThese early non-Samkhya speculations and proto-Samkhya ideas are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures0.80text
and the Bhagavad Gitainstance ofThese early non-Samkhya speculations and proto-Samkhya ideas are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures0.80text
Sāṁkhyapravacana Sūtra in verse noinstance ofSamkhya 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…0.80text
Vyasainstance ofWhile 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…0.80text

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