Traditional attribution
Dialogue of Kapila and Āsuri (Kapilāsurisaṃvāda)
कपिलासुरिसंवाद
A didactic dialogue of the Mokṣadharma in which Kapila instructs Āsuri on the origin of the world, the principles of nature and consciousness and the path of knowledge that leads to liberation. It is one of the witnesses of epic Sāṃkhya, prior to the classical systematisation of the Kārikā, in which the categories do not yet have the fixed form they would acquire later. Its interest lies in showing how the epic tradition built the figure of the founding teacher.
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Authorship note
A section of the Mahābhārata (Śāntiparvan, Mokṣadharma) that places in Kapila’s mouth his teaching to his disciple Āsuri. An ascribed epic discourse; Jacobsen (2008) translates and studies it.
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English
Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu: With a Translation of Kapilāsurisaṃvāda
Munshiram Manoharlal, 2008
Translation: Knut A. Jacobsen
ISBN 9788121511940
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 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
- Classical Sāṃkhya (Gerald James Larson) · 1969
Sources
- Jacobsen, Knut A. Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu: With a Translation of Kapilāsurisaṃvāda. Nueva Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2008 (ISBN 9788121511940).
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