Then, O great king, Kapila was pleased with Ansuman, and that saint of a virtuous soul told him to ask for a favour from him.
There are certain notions which Buddha shares in common not only with Kapila, but with every Hindu philosopher.
Kapila was, indeed, the first who drew a sharp line of demarcation between the two domains of matter and soul.
He therefore turned from the orthodox systems to the heterodox doctrine of Kapila.
Buddha, like Kapila, maintained that this world had no absolute reality, that it was a snare and an illusion.
