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A MISSING SANKHY A X:ARIKA 81
Chinese. ( 2 ) But our present text contains 72 verses and when
the last three are excluded as giving only ~. there
remain only 69 ver es for the doctrinal part of the book. ( 3)
The Bhd~hya of Gau~apada, the +il6~~. and the commentary
translated into Chinese all contain lengthy and substantially similar
discussions on verse 61, explaining why in that verse ~ is
called ~+il~d~. ( 4) In these discussions there are words which
indicate that the discussion must have been originally based
on a verse in the text, and is not an exposition given merely by
the commentators. And ( 5 ) an essential characteristic of the
Sankhya doctrine will be wanting in the Karikas if the work be
supposed to consist in its doctrinal part of only 69 verses. If we
put all these facts together we are led to infer that originally there
was one verse between the 6lst and the 62nd (in Wilson's edition )
and that if reconstructed from what look like excerpts from it in
the old commentaries it would run thus -
~~~~tR~!{ll
smt:~~~:~:~~ II
I have stated above that it is an essential part of the Sankhya
doctrine not to recognise any cause of the world subtler than
Prakriti : neither Ishvara, [nor Puru~ha, nor Kala ( time ), nor
again Svabhava ( nature ) ; and that the subject is noticed twice
in the old commentaries on the Karikas, once in explaining the
27th verse and again in the commentary on the 61st verse. It is
interesting in this connection to note that the Arab writer Alberuni
quoting from}l Sankhya book in the form of a dialogue, dwells
upon the same essential doctrine of the Sail.khya philosophy
~ Vide Alberuni's India, English trans. Vol. I, pp. 30 and 31,
Trubner and Co. ). With this independent evidence regarding the
characteristic doctrine of the Sailkhyas before us, it would certainly
be unreasonable to suppose that the doctrine was not mentioned
in Sdnkhya-Karikas, as we shall have to do if the noctrinal part
of the text is believed to have originally contained only 69 verses
found in the existing editions of the Karikas. Shvetdshvatara
Upani~had vi. 1, it may be finally mentioned, expressly refers to
Svabhdva, Kala and Ishvara as the three possible ulterior causes
of the world and naturally declares the last one, viz., Ishvara,
as being the real cause. The Satikhyas reject all these three, and
from the remaining two, Puru~ha and Prakriti, reject Puru~ha
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