Kapila
Kapila Saṃhitā
Traditional attribution
Kapila Saṃhitā
कपिलसंहिता
The first Kapila Saṃhitā is quoted in the Bhāgavatatātparyanirṇaya and the Vīramitrodaya in connection with rites of passage (saṃskāra); the second is a text glorifying (māhātmya) the sacred centres of Orissa. Neither bears any doctrinal relation to Sāṃkhya: they illustrate the Indian custom of placing texts under the authority of a venerable sage.
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Authorship note
At least two distinct works circulate under this title, both nominally ascribed to Kapila: a saṃhitā quoted in ritual treatises and a guide to the pilgrimage places of Orissa.
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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 Purāṇa
- 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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