The Sánkhya Káriká, or Memorial Verses on the Sánkhya Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

One of the works earliest announced for publication by the Oriental Translation Fund Committee was the Sdnkhya Kdrikd, a text book of that system of Hindu philosophy to which the term Sdiikhya is applied, and which had been translated from Sanscrit into English by that eminent Sanscrit scholar the late Henry Thomas Colebrooke. The accession of the lingering illness which finally terminated in his decease prevented Mr. Colebrooke from conducting his work through the press, and from adding to the translation those explanations and illustrations which the text required, and which he was most competent to supply. Upon my return to England from I ndia, therefore, in the beginning of 1833, I found that no progress had been made in the publication, and that the Translation of the text alone was in the possession of the Committee. Being desirous of redeeming the pledge which they had publicly given, and of accomplishing the purpose which they had announced, the Committee thought it desirable that the Translation, in its then existing form, should be printed; and conceived that, as its extent was insufficient to constitute a separate work, it would be advisable to print it in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society. With this view the manuscript was placed in my hands, that I should render such assistance as I might be able to afford in the correction of the press.
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