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Samkhya Darshana (साङ्ख्यदर्शनम्) (view source)
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==== तत्वानि || Fourfold Classification of the Twenty Five Tattvas ====
==== तत्वानि || Fourfold Classification of the Twenty Five Tattvas ====
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The Samkhya gives a description of categories based on their respective productive efficiency viz:<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
The Samkhya gives a description of categories based on their respective productive efficiency viz:<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
# प्रकृति || Prakriti (Productive)
# प्रकृति || Prakriti (Productive)
* The Productions include the sixteen principles, the ten organs, the mind and the five elements. They are unproductive, because none of them can give birth to a substance essentially different from itself.
* The Productions include the sixteen principles, the ten organs, the mind and the five elements. They are unproductive, because none of them can give birth to a substance essentially different from itself.
* The Purusha or Spirit is neither a production, nor is it productive. It is without attributes.
* The Purusha or Spirit is neither a production, nor is it productive. It is without attributes.
==== प्रमाणाः || Pramanas ====
==== प्रमाणाः || Pramanas ====
In order to prove the tattvas, different kinds of proof (means of right cognition) are to be described. Samkhya philosophy is based on systematic enumeration and uses three of six pramanas (प्रमाणाः । pramanas or proofs) as the only reliable means of gaining knowledge.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Dasgupta, Surendranath (2012 7th Reprint) ''A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1.'' Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref> These include<blockquote>दृष्टमनुमानमाप्तवचनं च सर्वप्रमाणसिद्धत्वात् । त्रिविधं प्रमाणमिष्टं प्रमेयसिद्धि: प्रमाणाद्धि ॥ ४ ॥ (Samk. Dars. 4)</blockquote>
In order to prove the tattvas, different kinds of proof (means of right cognition) are to be described. Samkhya philosophy is based on systematic enumeration and uses three of six pramanas (प्रमाणाः । pramanas or proofs) as the only reliable means of gaining knowledge.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Dasgupta, Surendranath (2012 7th Reprint) ''A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1.'' Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref> These include<blockquote>दृष्टमनुमानमाप्तवचनं च सर्वप्रमाणसिद्धत्वात् । त्रिविधं प्रमाणमिष्टं प्रमेयसिद्धि: प्रमाणाद्धि ॥ ४ ॥ (Samk. Dars. 4)</blockquote>