The Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy c9.15

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† This fact invalidates the argument of S. K. Belvarkar (*Bhandarkar Commemoration Volume*, p. 181) that the Ṣaṣṭitantra must have arrived at a negative conclusion on the existence of God, which is in itself wholly incompatible with the contents of the text. It is also impossible to accept his views that the Ṣaṣṭitantra represents a stage prior to the severance of Sāmkhya and Yoga, and is prior to the Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali (circa 150 B.C.); a decisive proof of the incorrectness of this dating of Patañjali is given by J. H. Woods, *Yoga System of Patañjali*, pp. xv-xix.