Isvara Krishna
Isvara Krishna (IAST: Īśvarakṛṣṇa; T. དབང་ཕྱུག་ནག་པོ་; Chinese: 自在黑; pinyin: Zìzàihēi) (fl. c. 350 CE)[1][2] was an Indian philosopher and sage. He was the author of the Samkhyakarika (“Verses on Samkhya”), a foundational text of the Samkhya school, one of the six orthodox Hindu schools of India.[3] The Samkhyakarika is the earliest surviving authoritative text on classical Samkhya philosophy.[4]
In the Samkhyakarika, Isvara Krishna describes himself as laying down the essential teachings of Kapila as taught to Āsuri and by Āsuri to Pañcaśikha to himself. Samkhyakarika includes distilled statements on epistemology, metaphysics and soteriology of the Samkhya school. The text also refers to an earlier work of Samkhya philosophy called Ṣaṣṭitantra (science of sixty topics) which is now lost.[5] The text was imported and translated into Chinese about the middle of the 6th century CE.[6] The records of Al Biruni, the Persian visitor to India in the early 11th century, suggests Samkhyakarika was an established and definitive text in India in his times.[7]
Notes
- ↑ "Sankhya | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ↑
དབང་ཕྱུག་ནག་པོ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ Davies 2013.
- ↑ King 1999, p. 63
- ↑ King 1999, p. 63
- ↑ Larson 1998, pp. 147–149
- ↑ Larson 1998, pp. 150–151
Sources
- Davies, John (2013-10-08), Hindu Philosophy: The Sankhya Karika of Iswara Krishna, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-136-38973-3
- King, Richard (1999), Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0954-3
- Larson, Gerald James (1998), Classical Sāṃkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and Meaning, London: Motilal Banarasidass, ISBN 81-208-0503-8
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