Samkhya and Yoga are mentioned together for first time in chapter 6.13 of the Shvetashvatra Upanishad, as samkhya-yoga-adhigamya (literally, "to be understood ...SamkhyaFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchThisarticleisaboutaschoolofphilosophy.Forthestatisticsjournal,seeSankhya(journal).OneofsixāstikaschoolsofHinduphilosophyPartofaseriesonHinduphilosophyOrthodoxSamkhyaYogaNyayaVaisheshikaMimamsaVedantaHeterodoxCharvakaĀjīvikaBuddhismJainismSub-schoolsSmartistAdvaitaVaishnaviteVishishtadvaitaDvaitaBhedabhedaDvaitadvaitaAchintyaBhedaAbhedaShuddhadvaitaMahanubhavaEkasaranaDharmaAkshar-PurushottamDarshanShaiviteShaivaSiddhantaPratyabhijñaPanchartikaPramanavadaShaktiVishishtadvaitaShivaBhedabedaShivadvaitaNeo-VedantaIntegralyogaTeachers(Acharyas)NyayaAkṣapādaGotamaJayantaBhattaRaghunathaSiromaniMīmāṃsāJaiminiKumārilaBhaṭṭaPrabhākaraAdvaitaAdiShankaraVishishtadvaitaRamanujaDvaitaMadhvaAchintyabhedabhedChaitanyaMahaprabhuDvaitadvaitNimbarkaShuddhadvaitaVallabhaMahanubhavaChakradharaEkasaranaDharmaSankardevAkshar-PurushottamDarshanSwaminarayanTantraShaktaAbhinavaguptaNigamanandaParamahansaRamprasadSenBamakhepaKamalakantaBhattacharyaAnandamayiMaNeo-VedantaVivekanandaAurobindoOthersSamkhyaKapilaYogaPatanjaliVaisheshikaKanada,PrashastapadaMajortextsSrutiSmritiVedasRigvedaYajurvedaSamavedaAtharvavedaUpanishadsPrincipalUpanishadsMinorUpanishadsOtherscripturesBhagavatGitaAgama(Hinduism)VachanamrutShastrasandSutrasBrahmaSutrasSamkhyaSutrasMimamsaSutrasNyāyaSūtrasVaiśeṣikaSūtraYogaSutrasPramanaSutrasPuranasDharmaShastraArthaŚastraKamasutraNaalayiraDivyaPrabhandhamTirumuraiShivaSamhitaHinduismOtherIndianphilosophiesvteSamkhya(Sanskrit:साङ्ख्य,IAST:sāṅkhya)isoneofthesixāstikaschoolsofIndianphilosophy.[1][2][3]ItismostrelatedtotheYogaschoolofHinduism,anditwasinfluentialonotherschoolsofIndianphilosophy.[4]ItformsthetheoreticalfoundationofYoga.Samkhya'sepistemologyacceptsthreeofsixpramanas('proofs')astheonlyreliablemeansofgainingknowledge,asdoesyoga.Thesearepraty