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Sāṃkhya Sūtra (Sāṃkhya-pravacana Sūtra) — Kapila

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Sāṃkhya Sūtra (Sāṃkhya-pravacana Sūtra)

सांख्यसूत्र (साङ्ख्यप्रवचनसूत्र)

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

Some five hundred aphorisms (527 in the Wikisource numbering; editions vary by one or two) in six books: the first sets out the doctrine and the theory of knowledge, the second and third the evolution of nature and the means of liberation, the fourth a series of illustrative parables, the fifth refutes rival schools and the sixth recapitulates. It defends the dualism of puruṣa and prakṛti, the pre-existence of the effect in its cause and the impossibility of proving the existence of a Lord (I.92). It was commented on by Aniruddha (c. 1500), Vijñānabhikṣu (second half of the 16th century), who read it in a theistic and Vedāntic key, and Mahādeva Vedāntin.

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Authorship note

Tradition calls them the “sūtras of Kapila”. Scholars (Garbe; Larson and Bhattacharya) date them to around the 14th–15th centuries: Mādhava, in the 14th century, does not know them and expounds Sāṃkhya from the Kārikā. They are not Kapila’s work.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila with Extracts from Vijnanabhiksu's Commentary — Kapila

    Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila with Extracts from Vijnanabhiksu's Commentary

    Munshiram Manoharlal, 2003

    Translation: James Robert Ballantyne

    ISBN 9788121509831

  • The Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila — Kapila

    The Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila

    Routledge, 2001

    Translation: James Robert Ballantyne

    ISBN 9780415245142

    Reedición de la versión de Ballantyne en la colección Trübner's Oriental Series.

  • The Sāmkhya Philosophy (Sacred Books of the Hindus 11)

    Pāṇini Office (Allahabad), 1915

    Translation: Nandalal Sinha

    Con la vṛtti de Aniruddha y el bhāṣya de Vijñānabhikṣu, además del Tattva Samāsa, la Kārikā y los fragmentos de Pañcaśikha.

  • The Sánkhya Aphorisms of Kapila, with Illustrative Extracts from the Commentaries (3.ª ed.)

    Trübner & Co. (Londres), 1885

    Translation: James Robert Ballantyne; ed. Fitzedward Hall

    Dominio público. Reimpresión facsímil de Adamant Media, ISBN 9781421270630 (Open Library).

  • The Aphorisms of the Sánkhya Philosophy of Kapila, with Illustrative Extracts from the Commentaries

    Presbyterian Mission Press (Allahabad), 1852

    Translation: James Robert Ballantyne

    Primera edición de la traducción de Ballantyne.

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • साङ्ख्यसूत्राणि (texto en Wikisource)

    Wikisource

    Texto sánscrito completo, numerado por libro y aforismo.

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Sources

  • Ballantyne, James Robert (trad.). The Sánkhya Aphorisms of Kapila, with Illustrative Extracts from the Commentaries. 3.ª ed., ed. Fitzedward Hall. Londres: Trübner & Co., 1885 (Trübner's Oriental Series). Texto consultado en el OCR de Internet Archive.

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