The Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy c7.22

c7.22

The degree of faith which can be attributed to this account of the views of Pañcaśikha can be judged from the fact that in xii, 321, 96-112 we have a different account of the views of that sage. Here there are thirty principles, with God* superadded. They are the ten senses and mind, power being ignored: intellect, Sattva, individuation, the general disposition, ignorance, the source, the manifestation, the unification of doubles such as pleasantness and unpleasantness, time, the five gross elements, being and not being, cause, seed and power. The source of all these factors is the unevolved, which is evolved by means of these principles, and as evolved is the individual. The way of life to be sought is renunciation. Yet another account of the principles is given in a version ascribed in xii, 274 to Asita Devala, but the details of this version deviate more and more from any normal schedule, the organs of knowledge being reckoned at eight.