So Kapila (Karika, 3) says, "Nature, the root of all things, is productive but not a production.
Seven principles are productions and productive.

Sixteen are productions but not productive.

Soul is neither a production nor productive." Mr.Muir (Sanskrit Texts, Part III.p.

96) quotes the following passages in proof of the antiquity of Kapila, and the respect paid to his doctrine in very early times:-- _Svet.

Upanishad._ "The God who superintends every mode of production and all forms, who formerly nourished with various knowledge his son Kapila the rishi, and beheld him at his birth." "_Bhagavat Purana_ (I.3, 10) makes Kapila an incarnation of Vischnu.
In his fifth incarnation, in the form of Kapila, he declared to Asuri the Sankhya which defines the collection of principles.
"_Bhagavat Purana_ (IX.