The Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy c7.30

c7.30

many spirits in the Sāmkhya that each should be regarded as atomic, as is expressly* recorded in the Yoga Sūtra commentary (i, 36) as the view of Pañcaśikha: failing the recognition that the spirit must be considered as not in space, which is not achieved by any school of Indian philosophy, it is clear that with an infinity of spirits the doctrine of their infinite extent is difficult, and it is probable enough that in this view, which is accepted throughout the rest of the history of the Sāmkhya, there is to be seen a trace of the influence of the Vedānta.