Yuktidipika

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Yuktidipika is an important early commentary that elucidates and defends the philosophical doctrines of the classical Indian Sāṃkhya system.

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Yuktidipika canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindu philosophical text
Sanskrit text
Sāṃkhya commentary
classical Indian philosophical work
philosophical commentary
addressesOpponent Buddhist philosophical positions
Mīmāṃsā positions
Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika positions
aimsTo defend Sāṃkhya doctrines against objections
elucidate Sāṃkhyakārikā verses
associatedWithPhilosophicalSchool Samkhya
surface form: Sāṃkhya
belongsToTradition classical Sāṃkhya
citedBy modern Indological research on Sāṃkhya
commentaryOn Samkhyakarika
surface form: Sāṃkhyakārikā
contains detailed exegesis of Sāṃkhyakārikā verses
defendsDoctrine classical Sāṃkhya system
discussesConcept ahaṃkāra
duḥkha (suffering)
guṇa
indriya
kaivalya (liberation)
mahat
prakṛti
puruṣa
tanmātra
explainsDoctrine Sāṃkhya cosmology
Sāṃkhya epistemology
Sāṃkhya metaphysics
genre philosophical exegesis
śāstra commentary
hasAlternativeTransliteration Yuktidīpikā
hasInfluenceOn later Sāṃkhya scholarship
hasLanguage Sanskrit
hasTitle Yuktidīpikā
period early classical period of Indian philosophy
philosophicalDiscipline Indian philosophical texts (Darśanas)
surface form: Indian darśana

epistemology
metaphysics
soteriology
preservedIn manuscript tradition
regionOfOrigin Indian subcontinent
religiousContext Hinduism
script Devanagari (in modern printed editions)
studiedInField Indology
history of Indian philosophy
textType prose commentary
usesMethod dialectical refutation
rational argumentation

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Samkhya hasText Yuktidipika
Samkhyakarika hasCommentary Yuktidipika