Vijnanabhikshu : a siddha of Sāṅkhya Yoga school of Kashi, perhaps its last Āchārya. He wrote commentaries on Sāṅkhya, Yoga & Vedanta.
... reason assigned by him for the loss of the verse; it was, he thinks, no accident, but a deliberate suppression made at a time when the Sankhya philosophy was being re-explained by thinkers like Vijnanabhikshu in a Vedantic sense. If so, the point made sheds a very Page 604 interesting light on the historic course of philosophical thought in India. The general line which that development ...
... state of my mind! My neighbours clustered round me and said, "What is this wonderful stuff you have written! Let's have a look." I had shown off a lot of learning, by quoting is varasiddheh, from Vijnanabhikshu, to show that the Sankhya is not necessarily atheistic, also by stealing Page 434 whole passages from Mill and so on. The paper finally reached the hands of Kiran Mukherji. I ...
... with their intermediary shades can be profitably studied. When the Vedantic theory has been mastered, the Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya & Vaisheshika can in its light be easily mastered in succession with Vijnanabhikshu's work & the great synthesis of the Bhagavadgita to crown the whole structure. The philosophical basis will then be properly laid and the Upanishads can be studied with new interest, verifying or ...
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