Alternative spellings of this word include Culikartha.

In Hinduism

Samkhya (school of philosophy)

Source: SOAS: The Soteriological Role of the Ṛṣi Kapila in the Yuktidīpikā

Cūlikārtha (चूलिकार्थ) refers to the “ten fundamental topics” according to the 7th century Yuktidīpikā is an anonymous commentary on the Sāṃkhyakārikā by Īśvarakṛṣṇa which represents the core text of the Sāṃkhya school of Hidnu philosophy.—[Regarding the Yuktidīpikā’s view of the nature of the Sāṃkhyakārikā]: The commentator next identifies the SK as a summary of the various arguments put forward by these teachers, which are classified according to a system of sixty categories of discussion: “These [thickets of logic] are inaccessible to those pupils whose intellects are confused with regard to the truth. Therefore, this handbook (prakaraṇa)—or even complete treatise (śāstra)—its meaning condensed, called the ‘Seventy [Verses]’ (saptati), was composed by Īśvarakṛṣṇa, on the basis of which, all of the categories (padārtha) will be explained in this [commentary]. The existence of primordial Materiality (pradhāna), oneness, purposefulness, difference, subservience to another, plurality, disjunction, conjunction, continuation of the remaining [body after discrimination], and non-agency, have been handed down as the ten fundamental topics (cūlikārtha). [...]”.

Note: For an overview of the significance of these ten fundamental topics, usually known as mūlikārtha (cf. Tattvakaumudī on Sāṃkhyakārikā 72, p. 173, ll. 16-18), see LARSON AND BHATTACHARYA (1987), pp. 93-94. Marginal notes in two of the Yuktidīpikā manuscripts gloss cūlātva with prādhānya (‘prevalance’ or ‘supreme importance’) explain that the ten topics are called cūlikārtha because they are similar to a cūlikā, which usually refers to a bird’s crest (Yuktidīpikā Intro., p. 2, n.1).

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Samkhya (सांख्य, Sāṃkhya) is a dualistic school of Hindu philosophy (astika) and is closeley related to the Yoga school. Samkhya philosophy accepts three pramanas (‘proofs’) only as valid means of gaining knowledge. Another important concept is their theory of evolution, revolving around prakriti (matter) and purusha (consciousness).

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