A History of Sanskrit Literature c18.16

c18.16

The name of the system, which only begins to be mentioned in the later Upanishads, and more frequently in the *Mahābhārata*, is derived from *saṃkhyā*, "number." There is, however, some doubt as to whether it originally meant "enumeration," from the twenty-five *tattvas* or principles which it sets forth, or "inferential or discriminative" doctrine, from the method which it pursues.