Al- Biruni mentions Samkhya as a book composed by Kapila p. 60.
It developed as one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy,
often associated with the Samkhya school.
not withstanding their greatest On those who do not reach Moksha according to Samkhya exertions, do not reach the stage of liberation.
Tantra philosophy accepts an all-pervading Ultimate Reality and subscribes to the Samkhya cosmology and thus presupposes the philosophy of the Vedanta and Samkhya.
The Samkhya school offers salvation to both the twice-
born and the once- born, whereas the Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta restrict it to the twice- born only.
For the last 57 years India has been my second home and I have been impressed to see there how religious traditions from abroad- Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam-
flourish alongside indigenous traditions like the Samkhya, Jain and Buddhist traditions.
Discussing its identification, Sachau draws attention to the" so- called Samkhya-
pravacanam(' The Sankhya Aphorism of Kapila')" and two other works, the Samkhya Karika of Isvara Krishna(
probably of the 4th century A. D.) and the Bhashya of Gaudapada see note 17 A below.