Ancient · Sanskrit
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana, a Sanskrit philosophical text by Ṣimānanda, with transliteration and Thothica's English translation from the GRETIL source text. The source identifies Ṣimānanda as Simānandadīkṣita, a Kānyakubja brāhmaṇa and son of Raghunandana of Iṣṭikāpura.
Chapters
- 01Invocation and prefaceprose
- 02The eight prakṛtis (productive principles)prose
- 03The sixteen modifications (evolutes)prose
- 04The Self / spirit (puruṣa)prose
- 05The triad of guṇasprose
- 06Evolution (forward creation)prose
- 07Involution (reabsorption)prose
- 08The subjective, objective, and divine ordersprose
- 09The five intellectual faculties (cognitions of will)prose
- 10The five sources of actionprose
- 11The five vital airsprose
- 12The five active selvesprose
- 13Fivefold (five-jointed) nescienceprose
- 14Twenty-eightfold incapacityprose
- 15Ninefold contentmentprose
- 16Eightfold attainmentprose
- 17The ten radical topicsprose
- 18The gracious (intellectual) creationprose
- 19The fourteenfold creation of beingsprose
- 20Threefold bondageprose
- 21Threefold liberationprose
- 22Threefold means of valid knowledgeprose
- 23Threefold sufferingprose
- 24The concluding three sūtras (tradition, fulfilment, end of suffering)prose
- 25Systematic recapitulation, sphoṭa and kāla excursus, cosmogony, and colophonprose
In the atlas
fully mappedIdeas43
Puruṣa · Kaivalya · Pradhāna / Prakṛti · Pramāṇa · The twenty-five tattvas · prakṛti · Ahaṃkāra · Akhyāti-vāda · Antaḥkaraṇa / Manas · Apavarga
Places
Kānyakubja · Brahmaloka · Iṣṭikāpura · Sumeru
Groups13
Sāṃkhya · Vaiśeṣikas · Vedāntins · the yogin · Brahma-mīmāṃsā / Vedānta · Brāhmaṇas · Buddhists · Caṇḍāla · Gods, humans, and animals · Naiyāyikas
Events
anugraha-sarga · bhūta-sarga · evolution · involution
Animals
gnat · tiryak
28 citations · 41 themes · 131 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.