Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    Ancient · Sanskrit

    Sāṃkhyakārikā

    Īśvarakṛṣṇa

    Sāṃkhyakārikā, a Sanskrit philosophical text by Īśvarakṛṣṇa, with transliteration and Thothica's English translation from the GRETIL source text.

    Chapters
    12
    Variants
    24
    Genre
    Philosophy
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01The threefold suffering and the aim of inquiryprose
    2. 02The means of valid knowledgeprose
    3. 03Pre-existence of the effect in its causeprose
    4. 04The manifest, the unmanifest, and the three guṇasprose
    5. 05Existence of prakṛti, existence and plurality of puruṣaprose
    6. 06Evolution of the principles and the thirteenfold instrumentprose
    7. 07The subtle body and transmigration of the liṅgaprose
    8. 08The dispositions and the intellectual creationprose
    9. 09The elemental creation and the worldsprose
    10. 10Prakṛti's selfless activity for puruṣa (illustrations)prose
    11. 11Bondage, liberation, and isolationprose
    12. 12Transmission lineage and colophonprose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures

    Brahmā · Gauḍapāda · Kapila · Paramārtha · Pañcaśikha · Āsuri · Īśvarakṛṣṇa

    Ideas14

    Ahaṃkāra · Kaivalya · Mahat / Buddhi · Mahābhūtas · Nature · Pramāṇa · Puruṣa · Tanmātras · antaḥkaraṇa and indriyas · bhāva

    Groups

    the audience

    Events

    bhautika sarga · pratyaya-sarga

    Objects

    Sāṃkhyakārikā · manuscripts V1 and M

    Animals

    the calf

    2 citations · 18 themes · 28 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.