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Evolution of Universe in Sānkhya Darśana

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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