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Kapila(flourished 550 BC?) Founder of the Samkhya school of Vedic philosophy in India. Legend says he was a descendant of Manu, the primal human being, and a grandson of the creator god, Brahma. He has also been thought of as an incarnation of Vishnu. In Buddhist sources he was a well-known philosopher whose students built Kapilavastu, the birthplace of Buddha Gautama. He lived as a hermit, and his ascetic regimen was said to have given him an inner store of such intense heat that he was capable of reducing 60,000 men to ashes. |
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Mukesh Kapila, UN coordinator for Sudan, told the Economist (May 15) that the situation constitutes "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. This will further strengthen the value we offer our customers," said Kapila Chandrasena, chief marketing officer, Sri Lanka Telecom. who have acted as special employee benefits and ERISA counsel to the estate since 1992; Soneet Kapila, Maggie Smith, Sherry Bennett, Lesley Johnson and others of the accounting firm Kapila & Co. |
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