Jainism and Sankhya

1 The Sankhya and the Jatna, along with the Yoga and the Bauddha, philosophies seem to represent the different branches of the main thought- current of Non Aryans of India that was prevalent before the advent of the Vedic Aryans This thought-current went underground in the days of the Vedas but afterwards having gathered strength

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नगीन शाह जैन और सांख्य चिन्तन की समानताएँ गिनाते हैं— कठोर द्वैत, जीव का अकर्ता एवं स्वभावतः निर्दुःख होना, पुद्गल-संयोग से ही दुःख, धर्म-अधर्म का रजस्-तमस् से तथा पुद्गल का प्रकृति से मेल। दोनों दर्शनों को वे एक ही वैदिकपूर्व विचारधारा की शाखाएँ मानते हैं। Nagin Shah lists the agreements between Jaina and Samkhya thought: a strict dualism, souls inactive and free of misery until joined to matter, dharma and adharma answering to rajas and tamas, and pudgala to prakrti. Both, he holds, descend from one pre-Vedic current of thought.

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