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‖ prakriti, n. Hindu Philos.|ˈprakriti|
Also 20 prakṛti.
[Skr. prakṛti nature.]
Primordial nature or first principle; matter as opposed to spirit; spec. in Sankhya philosophy, the potentially productive principle (freq. personified as female) which, with the animating principle (*purusha n.), gives rise to the material, sentient universe.
1785C. Wilkins Bhăgvăt-Gēētā 142 God is represented under the figure of Măhā-Pŏŏrŏŏsh, the great man or prime progenitor; in conjunction with Prăkrĕĕtĕĕ, nature or first principle, under the emblem of a female engendering the world with his..supernatural power. 1832Asiatic Researches XVII. 212 Nature, Prakŕiti..is defined to be of eternal existence and independent origin, distinct from the supreme spirit..the plastic origin of all things. 1913J. N. Farquhar Crown of Hinduism vi. 237 [Sāṅkhya]..teaches the existence of prakṛiti, an eternal fundamental substance from which all phenomenal nature arises. 1953F. Vreede Living Hindu Philos. iv. 27 The opposition of purusha to prakriti represents the complementarity of two universal aspects of reality: ‘essence’ and ‘substance’. 1964B. Heimann Facets Indian Thought iv. 59 All effects..are potentially contained in the great reservoir of primary Matter before, and after, their actual manifestation. Prakṛti is their common efficient and material cause. 1986J. Lipner Face of Truth 41 It is the non-conscious, primal, causal, ‘material’ principle of the world (namely..Prakṛti). |