History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.56

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There are other chapters in the Śāntiparva where the peculiar Sāṅkhya doctrines and terminology are employed but they are brought in line with Vāsudeva or Highest Self to which the Sāṅkhya doctrines are made subordinate. For example, in chap. 340 Nārada is said to have been²²⁴⁴ told by God himself some of the tenets of Sāṅkhya such as the twenty-four tattvas and Puruṣa as the 25th tattva, the three guṇas, that Puruṣa is kṣetrajña and bhoktṛ, that ācāryas, who have arrived at definite conclusions about Sāṅkhya, call God who is in the orb of the Sun as Kapila, that Hiraṇyagarbha, who is well praised in the Veda and is announced as (author) of Yogaśāstra, is 'myself'.