Although Manu is usually called a Puranic Sankhyan, yet are both schools represented, and that without regard to incongruous teaching.

Manu is no more Sankhyan than Vedantic.

Indeed in the main part of the work the teaching is clearly more Vedantic.

But it suffices here to point out that the _[=a]tm[=a]_-philosophy and religion is not ignored; it is taught as essential.

Nevertheless, it is not taught in such a way as to indicate that it is requisite for the vulgar.