Kapila
Kapila Purāṇa
Traditional attribution
Kapila Purāṇa
कपिलपुराण
A minor Purāṇa of which manuscripts survive (one in the Sarasvatī Bhavan, Benares, according to the catalogues) and which tradition places under Kapila’s authority. There is no critical edition or translation into a European language, and its content has hardly been studied. It is recorded so that the list of ascribed works is complete, without presuming any connection with the founder of Sāṃkhya.
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Authorship note
An upapurāṇa bearing Kapila’s name; cited by the Sūtasaṃhitā and by Kavīndrācārya. A purely nominal ascription; date unknown.
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Other works by Kapila
- Sāṃkhya Sūtra (Sāṃkhya-pravacana Sūtra) · 1400
- Kapila’s teaching to Devahūti (Kapila-gītā, Bhāgavata Purāṇa III.25–33) · 900
- Tattva Samāsa
- Dialogue of Kapila and Āsuri (Kapilāsurisaṃvāda)
- Dialogue of Kapila and Syūmaraśmi (Gokapilīya)
- Ṣaṣṭitantra (“Treatise of Sixty Topics”)
- Sāṃkhya Kārikā (a work by Īśvarakṛṣṇa, not by Kapila) · 350
- Kapila Saṃhitā
- Kapila Smṛti
- Kapila Pañcarātra
- Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu (Knut A. Jacobsen) · 2008
- Classical Sāṃkhya (Gerald James Larson) · 1969
Sources
- Wikipedia en inglés, «Kapila» (consultada para la lista de obras menores atribuidas y las genealogías purāṇicas; contrastada con Larson y Bhattacharya, 1987).
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