Make a detailed exposition of the Samkhya theory of evolution.
In Samkhya evolution involves prakriti alone. The purusha remains unchanged, a mere witness to prakrti's unceasing transformations. Their mutual functioning is described using the metaphor of the lame man (purusha) being carried by the blind man (prakrti).
Most of the Samkhyan cosmology is concerned with the unfolding of the prakriti principle; or more precisely mulaprakriti or unmanifest root-nature (equivalent to the Greek concept of Hyle or formless matter). Mulaprakriti is described as "unmanifest" (avyakta), "uncreated" or "unmade" (avikriti), and "the chief one" (pradhana) [ Gerald J. Larson, Classical Samkhya, pp.160-1, (Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1979)]. It is the original primordial root-nature from which everything else arises through a process of self-unfolding, triggered through the proximity of the purusha or centre of consciousness. All things, and all subsequent tattwas or evolutes, are contained within
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