The Sánkhya Káriká (Classic Reprint)

Salutation to that KAPILA by whom theS ankhya philosophy was compassionately imparted, to serve as a boat for the purpose of crossing the ocean of ignorance in which the world was immersed. I will declare compendiously the doctrine, for the benefit of students ;a short easy work, resting on authority, and establishing certain results. Three sorts of pain. The explanation of this A ryd stanza is as follows: The divine KAPILA, the son of BRAHMA indeed :as it is said, SANAKA, SANANDANA, and SANATANA the third; ASURI, KAPILA, BORHU, and PANCHASIKHA :these seven sons of Brahma were termed great sages. Together with KAPILA were born Virtue, Knowledge, Dispassion, and Power: for he being born, and observing the world plunged in profound darkness by the succeeding series of worldly revolutions, was filled with compassion ;and to his kinsman, theB rahman ASURI, he communicated a knowledge of the TWENTY-FIVE PRINCIPLES ;from which knowledge the destruction of pain proceeds. As it is said; He who knows the twenty-five principles, whatever order of life he may have entered, and whether he wear braided hair, a top-knot only, or be shaven, he is liberated (from existence): of this there is no doubt. The inquiry is in consequence of the embarrassment of the three sorts of pain. In this place the three sorts of pain are, 1. (ddhydtmika) natural and inseparable; 2. (adlnbltauiika} natural and extrinsic; and 3. (ddhidaicikfi) non-natural or superhuman.
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