sāṃKya | सांKय | sAMKya
sāṃKya | सांKय | mfn. (fr. saṃ-Kyā | सं-Kया |) numeral, relating to number, W.
relating to number (in gram. as expressed by the case-terminations &c.), Pat.
rational, or discriminative, W.
sāṃKya | सांKय | m. one who calculates or discriminates well, (esp.) an adherent of the Sāṃkhya doctrine, CūlUp.; MBh. &c.
N. of a man, Car.
patr. of the Vedic Ṛṣi Atri, Anukr.
N. of Śiva, MBh.
sāṃKya | सांKय | n. (accord. to some also m.) N. of one of the three great divisions of Hindū philosophy (ascribed to the sage Kapila [q.v.], and so called either from ‘discriminating’, in general, or, more probably, from ‘reckoning up’ or ‘enumerating’ twenty-five Tattvas [see tattva | तत्त्व |] or true entities [twenty-three of which are evolved out of Prakṛti ‘the primordial Essence’ or ‘first-Producer’], viz. Buddhi, Ahaṃkāra, the five Tan-mātras, the five Mahā-bhūtas and Manas; the twenty-fifth being Puruṣa or Spirit [sometimes called Soul] which is neither a Producer nor Production [see vikāra | विकार |], but wholly distinct from the twenty-four other Tattvas, and is multitudinous, each separate Puruṣa by its union with Prakṛti causing a separate creation out of Prakṛti, the object of the philosophy being to effect the final liberation of the Puruṣa or Spirit from the fetters caused by that creation; the Yoga [q.v.] branch of the Sāṃkhya recognizes a Supreme Spirit dominating each separate Puruṣa; the Tantras identify Prakṛti with the wives of the gods, esp. with the wife of Śiva; the oldest systematic exposition of the S˚ seems to have been by an author called Pañca-śikha [the germ, however, being found in the Ṣaṣṭi-tantra, of which only scanty fragments are extant]; the original Sūtras were superseded by the S˚ of Īśvara-kṛṣṇa, the oldest manual on the S˚ system that has come down to us and probably written in the 5th century A.D., while the S˚-sūtras or Ś˚ and Tattva-samāsa, ascribed to the sage Kapila, are now thought to belong to as late a date as the 14th or 15th century or perhaps a little later), ŚvetUp.; MBh. &c., IW. 73 &c.; RTL.
relating to number (in gram. as expressed by the case-terminations &c.), Pat.
rational, or discriminative, W.
sāṃKya | सांKय | m. one who calculates or discriminates well, (esp.) an adherent of the Sāṃkhya doctrine, CūlUp.; MBh. &c.
N. of a man, Car.
patr. of the Vedic Ṛṣi Atri, Anukr.
N. of Śiva, MBh.
sāṃKya | सांKय | n. (accord. to some also m.) N. of one of the three great divisions of Hindū philosophy (ascribed to the sage Kapila [q.v.], and so called either from ‘discriminating’, in general, or, more probably, from ‘reckoning up’ or ‘enumerating’ twenty-five Tattvas [see tattva | तत्त्व |] or true entities [twenty-three of which are evolved out of Prakṛti ‘the primordial Essence’ or ‘first-Producer’], viz. Buddhi, Ahaṃkāra, the five Tan-mātras, the five Mahā-bhūtas and Manas; the twenty-fifth being Puruṣa or Spirit [sometimes called Soul] which is neither a Producer nor Production [see vikāra | विकार |], but wholly distinct from the twenty-four other Tattvas, and is multitudinous, each separate Puruṣa by its union with Prakṛti causing a separate creation out of Prakṛti, the object of the philosophy being to effect the final liberation of the Puruṣa or Spirit from the fetters caused by that creation; the Yoga [q.v.] branch of the Sāṃkhya recognizes a Supreme Spirit dominating each separate Puruṣa; the Tantras identify Prakṛti with the wives of the gods, esp. with the wife of Śiva; the oldest systematic exposition of the S˚ seems to have been by an author called Pañca-śikha [the germ, however, being found in the Ṣaṣṭi-tantra, of which only scanty fragments are extant]; the original Sūtras were superseded by the S˚ of Īśvara-kṛṣṇa, the oldest manual on the S˚ system that has come down to us and probably written in the 5th century A.D., while the S˚-sūtras or Ś˚ and Tattva-samāsa, ascribed to the sage Kapila, are now thought to belong to as late a date as the 14th or 15th century or perhaps a little later), ŚvetUp.; MBh. &c., IW. 73 &c.; RTL.