ABSTRACT
Kapil Math was influenced by some of the same cultural developments in Bengal that led to the emergence of modern Yoga, but Kapil Math's influence on the emergence was limited. One influence of the Kapil Math tradition has been on the modern scholarship of Samkhya and Samkhyayoga in India. That Hariharananda Aranya was able to create a living tradition of yoga based on Samkhya, but that Samkhya nevertheless supposedly remains as obscure as before, indicates that the impact of the Kapil Math tradition has been quite limited. Hariharananda's Samkhyayoga comes from the same textual tradition as Surendranath Dasgupta's the classical Sanskrit texts of the Samkhya and Yoga schools and the Orientalist scholarship of the time. The Kapil Math version of yoga, which combined textual scholarship on Samkhya and Samkhyayoga with Samkhyayoga samnyasin practice, did impress some Western scholars who noted of its "authentic" understanding of the textual tradition.
