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(flourished 550 BC?) Founder of the Samkhya school of Vedic philosophy in India. Legend says he was a descendant of Manu, the primal human being, and a grandson of the creator god, Brahma. He has also been thought of as an incarnation of Vishnu. In Buddhist sources he was a well-known philosopher whose students built Kapilavastu, the birthplace of Buddha Gautama. He lived as a hermit, and his ascetic regimen was said to have given him an inner store of such intense heat that he was capable of reducing 60,000 men to ashes.

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The legendary founder of the influential non-Buddhist Sāṃkhya school. No reliable details of his life or works have survived.

 
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(ca. sixth century B.C.E.)

Celebrated Hindu sage and founder of the Sankya school of philosophy. He is believed by some Hindus to be the god Vishnu in the fifth of his 24 incarnations.

The Sankya system seeks to explain the creation of the phenomenal universe and the part played by spirit and matter (purusha and prakriti) and to harmonize rational analysis and the religious authority of the Vedas. It is the oldest of the Hindu philosophical systems and is regarded as the cornerstone of Hindu philosophy. The yoga system popularized in the Yoga Sutras of the sage Patanjali (ca. 200 B.C.E.) is based on the Sankya system.

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Bahadur, Krishna Prakash. The Wisdom of Saankhya. New Delhi, India: Sterling, 1978.

Prabhupada, Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta. Teachings of Lord Kapila: The Son of Devahuti. New York: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1977.

 
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