Academic study
Classical Sāṃkhya (Gerald James Larson)
Classical Sāṃkhya
A standard work on the history of Sāṃkhya: it distinguishes its phases (Vedic and Upaniṣadic speculation, epic Sāṃkhya, the classical Sāṃkhya of the Kārikā) and offers an interpretation of the system as a reflection on consciousness and experience. It contains the text and translation of the Sāṃkhya Kārikā and critically discusses the figure of Kapila.
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Authorship note
Academic study by Gerald James Larson.
Editions and translations
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English
Kapila
Classical Sāṃkhya
The Conscious LibraryClassical Sāṃkhya
Ross/Erikson, 1979
ISBN 9780915520275
Classical Sāṃkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning
Motilal Banarsidass, 1979
ISBN 9788120805033
2.ª ed. revisada; reimpresiones posteriores con el mismo ISBN.
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 Saṃhitā
- Kapila Smṛti
- Kapila Pañcarātra
- Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu (Knut A. Jacobsen) · 2008
Sources
- Larson, Gerald James. Classical Sāṃkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969; 2.ª ed. revisada, 1979 (ISBN 9788120805033).
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