English (machine translation)
Translation of Shashtitantra (Ṣaṣṭitantra)
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- English
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- 7 passages, 145 words
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- complete digital text
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- pramana-mt · Machine translation by Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-10-21) of in.darsana.samkhya.sastitantra*fragments · Machine output without human authorship: no copyright is claimed (CC0 1.0). The original text keeps its own…
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1.1
Presided over by the puruṣa, the pradhāna proceeds into activity.
1.2
The supreme form of the guṇas does not fall within the path of vision; / but what has reached the path of vision is extremely trivial, like an illusion.
1.3
[Inference is threefold:] based on prior perception (pūrvavat), based on remaining effect (śeṣavat), and based on general correlation (sāmānyatodṛṣṭa).
2.1
The topics that are in the [Sāṃkhya] Seventy are indeed the topics of the entire Ṣaṣṭitantra, / [though] stripped of narrative tales and devoid of the refutations of rival doctrines.
2.2
These are the sixty principles; the treatise intended for them is called the Ṣaṣṭitantra.
2.3
"By him", that is, the system was extensively composed by the sage Pañcaśikha—meaning it was composed in sixty sections entitled the Ṣaṣṭitantra, for precisely therein the sixty topics are explained.
2.4
Having extracted together from the Ṣaṣṭitantra the statements interspersed with illustrative stories and verses