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SANKHYA AND YOGA lief in pariņāma-nityatva, "the constant becoming of the world." 84
54 Sankhya is referred to in the Buddhist Páli canon, and Buddhist legends mention Kapila as one of the predecessors of the Buddha. "There are some recluses and Brahmans who are eternalists," we read in the Brahmajälasuttanta (Digha-nikaya 1. 30, 34; translated by T. W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Vol. II, Oxford, 1899, pp. 27-29); "they are addicted to logic and reasoning and give utterance to the following conclusions of their own: eternal is the soul and the world, giving birth to nothing new, it is steadfast as a mountain peak, as a pillar firmly fixed; and the living creatures, though they pass from birth to birth, fall from one state of existence and spring up in another, yet they exist forever and ever."
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