68. The Bhagavat-Gita, an episode in the Maha-Bharata, in an authority with the Vedantists.
69. Burnouf, Introduction à l'Histoire du Buddhisme Indien, I. 511, 520. He says that Sukya-Muni began his career with the ideas of the Sánkhya philosophy, namely, absence of God; multiplicity and eternity of human souls; an eternal plastic nature; transmigration; and Nirvana, or deliverance by knowledge.
70. Cours de l'Histoire de Philosophie, I. 200 (Paris, 1829); quoted by Hardwick, I. 211.
71. Karika, 8. "It is owing to the subtilty of Nature ... that it is not apprehended by the senses."
72. Karika, 19.
73. Karika, 58, 62, 63, 68.
74. Quoted from the Lalita Vistara in Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy. By Rev. R. M. Banerjea. London: Williams and Nordgate, 1861.
75. Muir, Sanskrit Texts, Part IV. p. 253.
76. Journal Am. Orient. Soc., III. 318.
77. Even in the grammatical forms of the Sanskrit verb, this threefold tendency of thought is indicated. It has an active, passive, and middle voice (like that of the cognate Greek), and the reflex action of its middle voice corresponds to the Restorer or Preserver.