Analiza schematu aktu poznawczego w wybranych fragmentach tekstów śruti w kontekście kształtowania się nurtu protosankhji
An Analysis of Cognition Act Schemata in Selected Excerpts from śruti Texts in the Context of the Development of the protosankhya Current

Author(s): Marta Kudelska
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: cognitive act; ānvīkṣiki; protosāṁkhya; Uddala Aruni
Summary/Abstract: In my reflections I refer to the broadest understanding of the sāṁkhya tradition. I place the sāṁkhya within one of the three traditions of ānvīkṣiki, which above all strove to explain reality in a rational way. For this purpose, various schemata were searched to make the description as simple and as clear as possible. One of them was the enumeration/numbering of the components of a given object of cognition by means of systematic reasoning. This clearly refers to the act of cognition itself. Its analysis determines the most basic components which are the starting point for the establishment of the principal numbers. For my consideration, the most important, apart from “one”, are numbers “two” and “three”. The key passages in the śruti texts that I refer to are the Vedic hymns I.164, X.90 and X.129 as well as the sixth book of "Chāndogyopaniṣad". I would argue that the teachings of Uddalaka Aruni may be considered a coherent protosankhya treatise.

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