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Isvarakrsna: Sankya-Karika
Gaudapad: Snkhya-krik-bhsya
Vcaspati: Tattvakaumudi
Vijanabhiksu: Snkhya-pravacana-bhsya & Snkhyasra
Aniruddha: Snkhya-pravacana-sutra-vrtti
Snkhya Metaphysics
Theory of Causation:Satkraya-vada
Snkhya Metaphysics, its doctrine of prakrti rests
on its theory of causation
Does an effect originally exist in the material cause
prior to its production?
Buddha and Nyya-Vaisesikas answer this
question negatively
the effect cannot be said to exist before its production by
some cause
satkryavada
Satkryavadins believe that the effect is not a new
creation
But only an explicit manifestation of that which was
implicit contained in its material cause
Is the effect a real transformation or an unreal
appearance of its cause?
We see that only certain effects can be produced from certain causes
Curd can be produced only out of milk, a cloth out of threads
This shows that the effect somehow exist in the causes
Had it not been so any effect could be produced from any cause
The potter would not have taken clay to produced pot
We can conclude:
That the effect exists in the material cause even before its
production