Skip to content
The ConsciousLibrary

Library Kapila

Sāṃkhya Kārikā (a work by Īśvarakṛṣṇa, not by Kapila) — Kapila

Academic study

Sāṃkhya Kārikā (a work by Īśvarakṛṣṇa, not by Kapila)

सांख्यकारिका

Kapila, sabio védico (pintura de la Company School)
byKapila

Seventy-two stanzas in the āryā metre that give a complete account of classical Sāṃkhya: the three kinds of pain and the inadequacy of ordinary remedies, the means of knowledge, the pre-existence of the effect in the cause, the three qualities, the plurality of puruṣas, the evolution of the twenty-five principles, the subtle body and transmigration, and liberation through discriminating knowledge, with the famous image of the dancer who withdraws once the spectator has seen her. It was commented on by Gauḍapāda, Māṭhara, Vācaspati Miśra (Tattvakaumudī) and the Yuktidīpikā, and Paramārtha translated it into Chinese in the 6th century.

Not available

No edition of this work is currently on sale in a store we have been able to verify.

Editions and translations · 5

EnglishFrançais

Authorship note

A related work, NOT ascribed to Kapila: it was composed by Īśvarakṛṣṇa around the 4th–5th centuries. It is recorded here because it is the oldest surviving text of classical Sāṃkhya and because it declares (stanzas 69–71) that it transmits the doctrine the sage taught to Āsuri.

Editions and translations

Editions in your language first, without hiding the others. Each with its cover and its store.

English

  • Classical Sāṃkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning — Kapila

    Classical Sāṃkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning

    Motilal Banarsidass, 2001

    Translation: Gerald James Larson

    ISBN 9788120805033

    Estudio con texto y traducción íntegra de la Kārikā (1.ª ed. 1969).

  • Samkhya Karika of Isvara Krsna, with the Tattva Kaumudi of Vacaspati Misra

    Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1995

    Translation: Swami Virupakshananda

  • The Sánkhya Káriká, or Memorial Verses on the Sánkhya Philosophy, by Íswara Krishna

    Oriental Translation Fund (Oxford), 1837

    Translation: Henry Thomas Colebrooke; Horace Hayman Wilson (comentario)

    Dominio público; con el bhāṣya de Gauḍapāda.

Français

  • Sâṃkhya kârikâ

    Éditions du Trigramme, 1990

    Translation: Shraddhananda Giri

  • Sâmkhya-Kârikâ d'Isvarakrsna — Kapila

    Sâmkhya-Kârikâ d'Isvarakrsna

    Agamat, 2002

    Translation: Bernard Bouanchaud

    ISBN 9782911166129

Other works by Kapila

Sources

  • Colebrooke, Henry Thomas (trad.) y Horace Hayman Wilson (trad. y coment.). The Sánkhya Káriká, or Memorial Verses on the Sánkhya Philosophy, by Íswara Krishna; also the Bháshya or Commentary of Gaurapáda. Oxford: Oriental Translation Fund, 1837. Estrofas LXIX–LXXI y comentario de Wilson, pp. 188–191.

Affiliate link: if you buy through it, the library may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. When an edition's real cover is not available, we show an illustrative library cover.