Kapila

Kapila, also referred to as Cakradhanus, was a Vedic sage in Hindu tradition, assigned to the 7th to 6th century BCE and regarded as the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. The most famous reference is to the sage Kapila with his student Asuri, who in the Indian tradition are considered the first masters of Samkhya. He is credited with authoring an influential sutra called the Samkhya-sutra, also called the Kapila-sutra, which presents the dualistic philosophy of Samkhya in aphorisms and was explained in the later Samkhyakarika. Hindu texts give different accounts of him: in the Bhagavata Purana he is described as an avatara of Bhagavan, born into the house of Kardama and the teacher of Samkhya to his mother Devahuti, and in the Mahabharata he appears in dialogues defending the principle of ahimsa.