# सांख्यकारिका (sāṃkhyakārikā)

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सांख्यकारिका (sāṃkhyakārikā) is a Sanskrit word meaning a title of a work.

- **SLP1:** `sAMKyakArikA`  **IAST:** sāṃkhyakārikā  **Devanagari:** सांख्यकारिका
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samkhyakarika
- **Declensions:** 24 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/sankhyakarika/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Other (2 definitions)
- Name of a collection of seventy-two memorial verses by Ishvara-krishna, forming the oldest extant systematic exposition of the Samkhya system  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 1199,1] सांख्य (sāṃkhya) — कारिका (—kārikā) f. N. of a collection of 72 memorial verses or stanzas by Īśvara-kṛṣṇa (also called सांख्य (sāṃkhya) सप्तति (sāṃkhyasaptati); the oldest extant systematic exposition of the S° system; cf. above) [ ID=241226 ]
- a title of a work  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > सांख्यकारिका (sāṃkhyakārikā) [Printed book page 611 ] सांख्यकारिका (sāṃkhyakārikā) f. ° प्रवचन (°pravacana) n. titles of works. [ ID=36471 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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