The sources of Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana

1. Sāṃkhyasūtra Kapila (traditional attribution) 2 authority 2 citations · 12 passages

   ch. 2 4 passages anchored here · ch. 25 8 passages anchored here

   The Sāṃkhyasūtra is explicitly named as the source of a quoted doctrine and repeatedly invoked as authoritative for points about prakṛti and the guṇas.

   "the cessation of suffering is [only] secondary," and "the praise of release [as bliss] is for the dull-witted.

2. Mahābhārata Vyāsa 1 authority 1 citation · 4 passages

   ch. 25 4 passages anchored here

   Explicitly introduced as 'the Bhārata' and quoted on the reverse-order dissolution of the principles.

   ] "Whatever principle arises from whatever, that dissolves back into it;

3. Manu 1 authority 1 citation · 11 passages

   ch. 25 11 passages anchored here

   Quoted by explicit verse-number citation (Manu 1.8, 1.9-11, 1.10, 1.16) as scriptural authority for the cosmogonic account.

   From it, then, the individual subtle bodies—the limiting adjuncts of individual souls, being portions of it—are divided off, like a son's subtle body from a father's subtle body.

4. Sāṃkhyakārikā Īśvarakṛṣṇa 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 25

   Explicitly named as the source of the statement about root-prakṛti introducing the prakṛti/vikṛti classification.

   The great principle, the I-maker, and the five subtle elements—these seven are both productive and modified ({{vikāra / vikṛti|prakṛti-and-vikṛti}}).

5. Vyāsa 1 endorsed 1 citation · 4 passages

   ch. 25 4 passages anchored here

   Explicitly cited by chapter-and-verse (Gītā 13.34) and endorsed as declaring that discrimination of field from field-knower leads to the supreme.

   —and by these Gītā statements it is declared that {{vivekajñāna|discriminative knowledge}} alone is the cause of liberation.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

invocation and preface 1 source

earlier Sāṃkhya expositions (unnamed poets and sages)

ch. 2 4 sources

Kūrma Purāṇa · Tattvasamāsa(sūtra) · Vaiśeṣika doctrine of nine substances · Śruti (unspecified Vedic revelation)

the self / spirit (puruṣa) 1 source

Bhagavadgītā

ch. 8 1 source

Mokṣadharma (Mahābhārata)

twenty-eightfold incapacity 1 source

Vedānta doctrine

the ten radical topics 3 sources

Sāṃkhyasaptati · the base sūtra text (mūlasūtra) of the system · Ṣaṣṭitantra

ch. 22 1 source

āgama (scripture)

threefold suffering 1 source

the Purāṇas

ch. 24 1 source

paramparā (unbroken tradition)

ch. 25 8 sources

Buddhist doctrine of self-luminous cognition · Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika doctrine of partless, eternal Time · Smṛti (unspecified traditional text) · Sāṃkhya sūtra deriving space and time from ākāśa · Vedāntin doctrine of the Self and the cognition 'I' · Śruti (unspecified Vedic scripture) · Śruti and Smṛti passages on the eternity of Time · Śruti dictum on seeing the Self (Upaniṣadic revelation)