The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sankhya \Sankh"ya\, n.
A Hindu system of philosophy which refers all things to soul
and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three
elements, goodness, passion, and darkness.
--Whitworth.
Wikipedia
Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal on statistics published by the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).
It was established in 1933 by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, founding director of ISI, along the lines of Karl Pearson's Biometrika. Mahalanobis was the founding editor-in-chief.
Each volume of Sankhya consists of four issues, two of them are in Series A, containing articles on theoretical statistics, probability theory, and stochastic processes, whereas the other two issues form Series B, containing articles on applied statistics, i.e. applied probability, applied stochastic processes, econometrics, and statistical computing.
Sankhya is considered as "core journal" of statistics by the Current Index to Statistics.
Usage examples of "sankhya".
In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.
The Sankhya philosophy is a regular system of metaphysics, to be studied as one would study algebra.
His conclusion, after a careful and candid discussion, is, that Nirwana had different meanings to the minds of the ancient Aryan priests, the orthodox Brahmans, the Sankhya Brahmans, and the Buddhists, but had not to any of them, excepting possibly a few atheists, the sense of strict annihilation.
He told him about the system of philosophy known as Sankhya, the eight aspects of the Unknown, the eight aspects of Delusion, and the eighteen aspects of Absolute Darkness.