Kapila: Founder of Samkhya and Avatara of Visnu (With a Translation of Kapilasurisamvada)
Jacobsen, Knut A.
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Book ID : 33619
ISBN-10 : 81-215-1194-1 / 8121511941
ISBN-13 : 978-81-215-1194-0 / 9788121511940
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2008
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
262p., 24 B/W Illus., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
The book deals with the life of Kapila in the Veda, the Sramana traditions, the Epics and the Puranas, in the Samkhya system of religious thought and in the ritual traditions of many contemporary Hindu tradition. It also contains a translation into English of the text Kapilasurisamvada, Kapila's teaching of Asuri, found in a few manuscripts of the Southern recension of the Mahabharata.
