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सांख्य mfn. mfn. (fr. सं-ख्या) numeral, relating to number, [W.]
relating to number (in gram. as expressed by the case-terminations &c.), [Pat.]
rational, or discriminative, [W.]
सांख्य m. m. one who calculates or discriminates well, (esp. ) an adherent of the सांख्य doctrine, [CūlUp.] ; [MBh.] &c.
N. of a man, [Car.]
patr. of the Vedic ऋषिअत्रि, [Anukr.]
N. of शिव, [MBh.]
सांख्य n. n. (accord. to some also m.) N. of one of the three great divisions of Hindū philosophy (ascribed to the sage कपिल [q.v. ], and so called either from ‘discriminating’, in general, or, more probably, from ‘reckoning up’ or ‘enumerating’ twenty-five तत्त्वs [See तत्त्व] or true entities [twenty-three of which are evolved out of प्रकृति ‘the primordial Essence’ or ‘first-Producer’], viz. बुद्धि, अहंकार, the five तन्-मात्रs, the five महा-भूतs and मनस्; the twenty-fifth being पुरुष or Spirit [sometimes called Soul] which is neither a Producer nor Production [see विकार], but wholly distinct from the twenty-four other तत्त्वs, and is multitudinous, each separate पुरुष by its union with प्रकृति causing a separate creation out of प्रकृति, the object of the philosophy being to effect the final liberation of the पुरुष or Spirit from the fetters caused by that creation; the योग [q.v. ] branch of the सांख्य recognizes a Supreme Spirit dominating each separate पुरुष; the तन्त्रs identify प्रकृति with the wives of the gods, esp. with the wife of शिव; the oldest systematic exposition of the S° seems to have been by an author called पञ्च-शिख [the germ, however, being found in the षष्टि-तन्त्र, of which only scanty fragments are extant]; the original सूत्रs were superseded by the S° of ईश्वर-कृष्ण, the oldest manual on the S° system that has come down to us and probably written in the 5th century A.D., while the S° -सूत्रs or Ś° and तत्त्व-समास, ascribed to the sage कपिल, 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.]
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