Samkhya Philosophy: Containing Samkhya Pravachanasutram with the Vriti of Aniruddha, and the Bhasya of Vijnanabhiksu and Extracts fromthe Vrittisara ... Tatvasamasa; Samkhyakanka; Panchasikhasutram [Hardcover]

Nandalal Sinha (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2003 | ISBN-10: 812151097X | ISBN-13: 978-8121510974

Contains origins, trans. of many texts, with introd. major reference work.

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• Hardcover: 770 pages
• Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 812151097X
• ISBN-13: 978-8121510974
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.7 inches
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crucial text of Dualist Philosophy from India, September 4, 2006

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This review is from: Samkhya Philosophy: Containing Samkhya Pravachanasutram with the Vriti of Aniruddha, and the Bhasya of Vijnanabhiksu and Extracts fromthe Vrittisara ... Tatvasamasa; Samkhyakanka; Panchasikhasutram (Hardcover)

Samkhya Philosophy can be fruitfully studied in connection with the Yoga Sutras of Patinjali, and with Tantric and Buddhist philosophies.

Unlike Advaita Vedanta, Samkhya philosophy argues that there are two distinct co-eternal, primordial principles of reality, and that making distinctions about what is not the Self is crucial to liberation. The two primordial principles are Purusha and Prakriti. There are many selves (Purushas), which are co-eternal with Nature (Prakriti); it is the agitation of Prakriti in the presense of a Purusha which leads to the manifestation of various other experiences.

For a student of comparative religion, particularly those who are interested in dualism in its various forms, this text is very important. It particularly interesting to compare and contrast it to the text, The Book of Two Principles, which is of Cathar origin, available in Wakefield and Evan's Heresies of the High Middle Ages.

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1.0 out of 5 stars really hard to read and understand, November 19, 2009

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This review is from: The Samkhya Philosophy (1915) (Hardcover)

It is an old scripture, translated into english. I could not understand most of the text.