The Samkhya System: A History of the Samkhya Philosophy c9.3

c9.3

Some further light on the Ṣaṣṭitantra is thrown by the mention of that system along with the system of Kapila in the Anuyogadvāra Sūtra of the Jains as Kāvilam and Saṭṭhitantam, which has a parallel in the mention of the same systems as Kāvilā and Sāṃkhajogi in the Aupapātika Sūtra.[*] The commentator, Abhayadeva, on the latter passage explains the system of Kapila as the atheistic Sāṃkhya, and the Sāṃkhya as the theistic Sāṃkhya, treating Yoga as a separate head, but the parallelism with the first passage and the fact that only one representative of Sāṃkhya-Yoga is given, show that but one system is meant, which united the two sides of Sāṃkhya and Yoga.