Editing Samkhya (section)

==Etymology==
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''Sāṃkhya'' (सांख्य) or ''sāṅkhya'', also transliterated as ''samkhya'' and ''sankhya'', respectively, is a [[Sanskrit grammar|Sanskrit word]] that, depending on the context, means 'to reckon, count, enumerate, calculate, deliberate, reason, reasoning by numeric enumeration, relating to number, rational'.<ref>[http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/tamil/index.html saMkhya] ''Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary,'' Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, Germany</ref> In the context of ancient Indian philosophies, ''Samkhya'' refers to the philosophical school in Hinduism based on systematic enumeration and rational examination.<ref>[[Mikel Burley]] (2012), ''Classical Samkhya and Yoga - An Indian Metaphysics of Experience,'' Routledge, {{ISBN|978-0415648875}}, pages 47-48</ref>

The word ''samkhya'' means 'empirical' or 'relating to numbers'.<ref name="harvnb|Apte|1957|page=1664">{{harvnb|Apte|1957|page=1664}}</ref> Although the term had been used in the general sense of metaphysical knowledge before,<ref>{{harvnb|Bhattacharyya|1975|pages=419–20}}</ref> in technical usage it refers to the Samkhya school of thought that evolved into a cohesive philosophical system in early centuries CE.<ref>{{harvnb|Larson|1998|pages=4, 38, 288}}</ref> The Samkhya system is called so because 'it "enumerates'" twenty five ''Tattvas'' or true principles; and its chief object is to effect the final emancipation of the twenty-fifth Tattva, i.e. the puruṣa or soul'.<ref name="harvnb|Apte|1957|page=1664"/>