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Maharsi Vedavyasa was staying in his hermitage at Badarikasrama. One day the celestical hermit Narada turned up there in the course of his usual wanton rambles.the great Vyasa welcomed him with due rities and on his taking seat asked: "Prophet of Gods! The soul of man seeks to get free from the hold of pleasure and pain and craves for deliverance from the bondage of the world. But the path of Action does not leaddirectly to the goal. Knowledge of course does ...
The Samkhya of Kapila has influenced every school of Indian philosophy. Among the treatises explaining its teachings, only two have survived intact, the rest being either in fragments or totally lost. One of these, the Samkhya-pravachana-sutram with two commentaries by Aniruddha and Vijnanabhiksu form the body of this book, and the Isvarakrisna and Panchasikha-sutram are given in appendices. The Samkhya relies on the ruler of logic for establishing the validity ...
This work is based on the text edited by Ballantyne and published in the Bibliotheca Indica, New Series in 1861. The translation has been very much facilitated, and in many places, considerably improved by E.B. Cowell's work published in the same series in 1878. Nothing definite is known regarding the author or the date of the One Hundred Aphorisms of Sandilya, "They are the work of some anonymous teacher" according to Cowell, "who ascribed his ...