Definitions for Sankhya

Sankhya San·khya

Spelling: [sahng-kyuh]
IPA: /ˈsɑŋ kyə/

Sankhya is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in Sankhya (aahknsy).

Definitions for Sankhya

noun

  1. one of the six leading systems of Hindu philosophy, stressing the reality and duality of spirit and matter.

Origin of Sankhya

First recorded in 1780-90, Sankhya is from the Sanskrit word sāṅkhya

Examples for Sankhya

In his fifth incarnation, in the form of Kapila, he declared to Asuri the Sankhya which defines the collection of principles.

Sankhya, san′ky, n. one of the six great systems of orthodox Hindu philosophy.

And again: "In the later system of emanation of Sankhya there is a more marked approach to a materialistic doctrine of evolution."

Thou art the refuge of those versed in the Sankhya philosophy (the mysteries of the soul), and thou art the support of the Yogins.

The Sankhya system, which Buddha found in existence, presupposes the Vedanta system.

In India the Sankhya philosophy was the preparation for the Buddhist religion.

The name Sankhya given to this system means "enumeration," "consideration."

The Sankhya doctrine had announced that Brahman and the gods did not exist, but only nature and the soul.

It is expounded in the Sankhya Karika, an important relic of bold rationalistic Indian thought.

Had not the Sankhya, the doctrine of Kapila, called in question the merit of the sacrifice and the customs of purification?

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