Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2

SR No.: 008406
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 503
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Philosophy
File Size: 11 MB

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P. 172, II. 15 & 18]
The late Dr. A. B. Dhruva in his intro. (pp. XXXIII-XXXIV) to SM observes:
NOTES
of:
299
"The Samkhya and the Yoga are the two oldest Darsanas', the former being found in a sufficiently evolved form in the later Upanisads, and the practices of the latter being also old and known to Gautama Buddha as an established method of discovering Truth."
On
P. XXII (intro. to SM) he remarks:
"The essential difference between it and a is more correctly formulated as the difference between the theoretical and the practical side of a single system of philosophy than as the difference between two Sankhyas, one of which was 'nirisvara and the other sesvara' (atheistic and theistic), as is sometimes done."
The Sankhyas admit twenty-five tattvas (principles) which consist
(1) Avyakta i. e. the Unmanifest or the Potential Reality. It is known as pradhana, the Great Abode or Reservoir and also as prakrti'.5
(2) Mahat i. o. the Great Principle viz. the Buddhi or Intelligence. It is generally understood as the Cosmic Intelligence-the Intelligence manifested in the macrocosm, and hence mahat'.
Ancient India" from "Some Problems in Indian Literature" by Winternitz and Eliot's Hinduism and Buddhism (pt. II, 6-7) are referred to.
1 Dr. S. K. Belvalkar in his "Notes" (p. 174) on Brahmasutras says: "Jainism has suffered in estimation as an ethical and metaphysical system by being deemed as more or less contemporaneous in origin with the other more evolved systems like the Sankhya, Vedanta and Buddhism."
2 "Recently Marshall has opined that it existed even in the pre-Vedic civilization of the Indus valley".-intro. (p. XXXIV) to SM
Some of the Jainas believe that Marici, a son of Bharata and a grand-son of Lord Rṣabha, is the originator of the Sankhya system.
3 On p. XXXV it is said: "That 'Kapila' was known as a historical person long before the time of Gautama Buddha is clear from the name of the birth-place of Gautama which was 'Kapila-vastu', 'the residence of Kapila'. Some believe that the real word is 'kapila-vastu'. It remains to be ascertained as to which Kapila is referred to in the following line of Svetasvatara Upanisad (V, 2):
" ऋषि प्रसूतं कपिलं यस्तमये ज्ञानैर्बिभर्ति ज्ञायमानं च पश्येत्”.
4 In the avopañja com. (p. 343) on Abhidhanacintamani (III, 526) we have: “पळविंशतेस्तत्त्वानां सङ्ख्यानं सङ्ख्या 1 तदधिकृत्य कृतं शास्त्रं साइख्यम्".
5 " प्रकृतिः प्रधानं ब्रह्म अव्यक्तं बहुधानकं मायेति पर्याया” – Bhāsya on Säñkhyakārikā. In Sankhya-tattva-samäsa we have: "qe vir af प्रधानं ब्रहा परं ध्रुवं प्रधानकमक्षरं क्षेत्रं तमःप्रसूतमिति”