sAMKya mfn. ( fr. saM-KyA ) numeral, relating to number, W.
sAMKya a. [ saMKyayA nirvfttaM aR ] 1 Relating to number. 2 Calculating, enumerating. 3 Discriminative. 4 Deliberating, reasoning, a reasoner; tvaM gatiH sarvasAMKyAnAM yoginAM tvaM parAyaRaM Mb. — KyaH, -KyaM N. of one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy, attributed to the sage Kapila; (this philosophy is so called because it ‘enumerates’ twentyfive Tattvas or true principles; and its chief object is to effect the final emancipation of the twenty-fifth Tattva , i. e. the Puruṣa or soul, from the bonds of this worldly existence-the fetters of phenomenal creation-by conveying a correct knowledge of the twenty-four other Tattvas and by properly discriminating the Soul from them. It regards the whole universe as a development of an inanimate principle called Prakṛti q. v. , while the Puruṣa is altogether passive and simply a looker-on. It agrees with the Vedānta in being synthetical and so differs from the analytical Nyāya or Vaiśeṣika; but its great point of divergence from the Vedānta is that it maintains two principles which the Vedānta denies, and that it does not admit God as the creator and controller of the universe, which the Vedānta affirms); sAMKyamiva kapilADizWitaM K. — KyaH 1 A follower of the Sāṃkhya philosophy; Bg. 3. 3 , 5. 5. 2 An epithet of Śiva. Comp. — prasAdaH, -muKyaH epithets of Śiva.