In this article, I reconstruct the view of the Yuktidīpikā, the most detailed and profound commentary of classical Sāṃkhya, on the origin of the Vedas. A close reading of the text reveals that its unknown author wavered between at least two different views on this issue. The first view is that the authorless but noneternal Vedas evolve from prakṛti (primordial matter) at the beginning of a new cycle of existence of the world (kalpa) and merge into prakṛti during a cosmic dissolution (pralaya). The Yuktidīpikā is the first text in classical Sāṃkhya to state directly that the Vedas have no author. The second and opposite view is that Kapila is the author of the highest teaching of the Vedas. This view is expressed only indirectly. Besides reconstructing the above-mentioned views, I attempt to answer the question of whether by quoting Nirukta 1.20 the Yuktidīpikā communicates something about the origin of the Vedas. Illustrating Sāṃkhya thought by quoting this passage of the Nirukta, as well as proclaiming the idea that the Vedas are authorless, which became the “official” standpoint of the Sāṃkhya darśana, can be interpreted as elements of the Yuktidīpikā’s pioneering project to show that Sāṃkhya is not in conflict with the Vedas.

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吠陀经起源的 Yuktidīpikā

在这篇文章中，我重构了《Yuktidīpikā》，这是对吠陀经起源最详细、最深刻的古典释迦论注解。仔细阅读文本会发现，它的未知作者在这个问题上至少在两种不同的观点之间摇摆不定。第一种观点认为，无作者但非永恒的吠陀经在世界的新循环（劫）开始时从原始物质（prakṛti）进化而来，并在宇宙解体（pralaya）期间融合到原始物质（prakṛti）中。Yuktidīpikā 是古典 Sāṃkhya 中第一个直接声明吠陀经没有作者的文本。第二种相反的观点是，迦毗罗是吠陀最高教义的作者。这种观点只是间接表达。除了重构上述观点外，我试图通过引用 Nirukta 1 来回答是否存在的问题。20 Yuktidīpikā 传达了一些有关吠陀经起源的信息。通过引用 Nirukta 的这段话来说明 Sāṃkhya 的思想，并宣布吠陀经是无作者的，这成为 Sāṃkhya darśana 的“官方”立场，可以解释为 Yuktidīpikā 开创性项目的元素，以表明 Sāṃkhya 是与吠陀经不冲突。