The Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy c12.6

c12.6

This summary of the contents of the Tattvasamāsa does not suggest that it has any special claim to antiquity: it probably represents one of several forms of arranging the Sāmkhya principles, of which another form is preserved in the Ṣaṣṭitantra list of topics. In any case, however, as the treatise itself is far too brief to give valuable information regarding the system, the value of the work is much inferior to that of the Sāmkhya Kārikā on the one hand, or the Sāmkhya Sūtra on the other.