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Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu (Knut A. Jacobsen)
Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu
The only monograph devoted entirely to the figure of Kapila. It gathers the Vedic, epic, Purāṇic, Jain and Buddhist sources, follows the transformation of the teacher of Sāṃkhya into an avatar of Viṣṇu and studies the places of worship and pilgrimage associated with his name. It includes a translation of the Kapilāsurisaṃvāda from the Mahābhārata.
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Authorship note
Academic monograph by Knut A. Jacobsen (University of Bergen).
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English
Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu
Munshiram Manoharlal, 2008
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 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
- 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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