Kapila is a Hindu philosopher credited as being the traditional founder of the Samkhya philosophical system, one of Hindu philosophy's six schools.
Little is known about him, and most of what is known has a
mythical ring to it, making its historical worth suspect.
Kapila may have lived around the year 700 B.C.E.
If this is correct, Kapila lived around a thousand years
before Ishvarakrishna.
The Samkhyakarikas, which is the fundamental literature for
the school, is the earliest Samkhya figure from whom we have a well-attested
text.
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