Purāṇavid: the past, the religion and the philosophy

Sā ṅ khya is one of the six  ṣ ada-darśana-s or the orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy which accept Vedic corpus as the valid epistemological source. It is a kind of a dualist doctrine and forms the basis of its sister school Yōga and subsequently the Ayurvedic tradition.  In the Sankhya philosophy, everything emerges and evolves from an Absolute Reality (Puru ṣ a) which is the witness consciousness that is attributeless and thus beyond deśa (space), kāla (time), and kāra ṇatā (casualty). The only extant ancient text of this school  Sā ṅ khyakārikā describes  Puru ṣ a as a single 'point' that encompasses everything and something which cannot be perceived by the mind or described by a human language. All śakti-s and sāmarthya exist within the Puru ṣ a in an unmanifested state. From this absolute evolves a relative reality, a sublime creative force called the Prak ṛti, which is often roughly translated as Nature. The sole difference between the Absolute and Nature as described

In Purva Mimansa Darshana, the relationship between a word and its meaning is considered to be natural. The relationship between the word and its meaning is called 'Shakti' which helps one to understand the meaning of the word when it's uttered. The Mimansa view on this subject is also accepted by grammarians who consider the relationship between a word and its meaning to be natural. But what's the natural relationship between, say the word 'cow', and the animal which is referred to by the word? Didn't the animal exist before the word was coined by humans? It did exist. So, how can the relationship be considered to be natural? This objection is solved by Mimansaka-s in two ways:   1. They consider the words to be eternal. It's difficult to know the exact origin and how they established this theory as many works of the school have been lost in time.  2. As the senses have the innate ability to perceive objects, words have the innate ability to capture mea