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Line 3: {{Use dmy dates\|date=April 2015}} {{Hindu philosophy}} '''Samkhya''' or '''Sankhya''' JEYMAR BAKLA '''Samkhya''' or '''Sankhya''' ({{lang-sa\|[[:wikt:सांख्य\|सांख्य]]}}, [[IAST]]: ''{{IAST\|sāṃkhya}}'') is one of the six [[Āstika and nāstika\|orthodox]] schools of [[Hindu philosophy]].<ref>Knut Jacobsen, Theory and Practice of Yoga, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120832329, pages 100-101</ref><ref>"Samkhya", American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition (2011), Quote: "'''Samkhya is a system of Hindu philosophy based on a dualism involving the ultimate principles of soul and matter.'''";<br>"Samkhya", Webster’s College Dictionary (2010), Random House, ISBN 978-0375407413, Quote: "'''Samkhya is a system of Hindu philosophy stressing the reality and duality of spirit and matter'''."</ref> It is described as the [[rationalism\|rationalist]] school of [[Indian philosophy]].<ref>Mike Burley (2012), Classical Samkhya and Yoga - An Indian Metaphysics of Experience, Routledge, ISBN 978-0415648875, pages 43-46</ref> It is most related to the [[Yoga (philosophy)\|Yoga]] school of [[Hinduism]], and its rationalism was influential on other schools of Indian philosophies.<ref name=royper>Roy Perrett, Indian Ethics: Classical traditions and contemporary challenges, Volume 1 (Editor: P Bilimoria et al), Ashgate, ISBN 978-0754633013, pages 149-158</ref> he ultimate principles of soul and matter.'''";<br>"Samkhya", Webster’s College Dictionary (2010), Random House, ISBN 978-0375407413, Quote: "'''Samkhya is a system of Hindu philosophy stressing the reality and duality of spirit and matter'''."</ref> It is described as the [[rationalism\|rationalist]] school of [[Indian philosophy]].<ref>Mike Burley (2012), Classical Samkh Sāmkhya is an enumerationist philosophy whose [[epistemology]] accepted three of six ''[[Pramanas]]'' as the only reliable means of gaining knowledge. These included ''Pratyakṣa'' (perception), ''Anumāṇa'' (inference) and ''Sabda'' (''Āptavacana'', word/testimony of reliable sources).<ref name="Lpage9"/><ref name=eliottjag/><ref name=jag>John A. Grimes, A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English, State University of New York Press, ISBN 978-0791430675, page 238</ref>

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