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Ishvarakrishna

Author of the Samkhya Karika

What they did

The Samkhya Karika sets out the constituents of experience, the means of valid knowledge, the analysis of perception and error, and a systematic account of the mind and its faculties in seventy-two verses.

The text

Samkhya Karika

When

Date disputed; usually placed in the early centuries CE · disputed · disputed
Dating rests on later commentary and translation history

Where

Unknown or disputed.

Where it maps in modern education

Psychology and study of mind · CBSE · IGCSE · IB — Samkhya and Yoga. Perception, cognition and error, attention and its training, memory, personality types, the states of waking, dream and sleep.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.