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transmigration, the doctrine of Ahimsa etc. suggests an origin of both these systems, by degrees, from out of a common cultural and philosophical heritage. (5) The pre-classical Samkhya, so far from making a tirade against the Śrutis, endeavoured to interpret them to support its own views, as seems clear from the data in the Brahma-sūtras.
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Oldenberg's view differs from those of Garbe ond Jacobi.". He sees the beginnings of the Samkhya in the Katha and especially the Svetasvatara Upanisads. His pre-classical Samkhya is a triune-unity as set forth in the first chapter of the Svetāśvatara. Lastly, seeing that the Samkhya of the Katha and the Sve. Upanisads affords a close similarity to the Samkhya of the Gitā and the Epic generally, Oldenberg is not ready to regard the 'Epic Samkhya' as belonging yet to the formative, pre-classical stage, because the Epic invariably speaks of the Samkhya as well as the Yoga as two systems of long standing (). He would go so far as to regard the Epic form of the system as one self-consistent line of development taken by the 'original' Samkhya, just as its classical form with its pronounced dualism and its negation of the Absolute may very well have been another independent line of development.
Dr. Belvalker, after criticising these endorses in the end the view of Oldenberg.
different views,
Dr. Keith' also seems to incline more to the views of Oldenberg. According to him the classical Samkhya is a natural
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cf. his 'Die Lehre der Upanishaden and die Anfange des Buddhismus.* 1915.
Also 'Zur Geschichte der Samkhya-philosophic' in NGGW, 1917, pp. 218-253. (Belvalkar, p. 418)..
History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. II, p. 426,
Samkhya System, p. 52-53.
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