jnanan.

1827 Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. I. 576 Vásudéva, or Bhagavat,..has six especial attributes,..1st. Knowledge (jnyána), or acquaintance with everything animate or inanimate constituting the universe.

1875 M. Williams Indian Wisdom iii. 59 Jnāna, ‘knowledge of universal truth’.

1916 T. A. Gopinatha Rao Elem. Hindu Iconogr. II. i. 273 Śiva was seated facing south when he taught the rishis yōga and jñāna.

1945 A. Huxley Let. 10 Apr. (1969) 520 There is gnosis or jnana after death only for those who have chosen to pay the price..of gnosis during life.

1971 Illustr. Weekly India 11 Apr. 15/4 The essence of the world is religion..the essence of religion is knowledge (jnana).

1877 M. Williams Hinduism i. 11 Popular Hindûism..though supposed to accept this creed as the way of true knowledge (Jnāna-mārga)..adds to it two other..ways.

1883 M. Williams Relig. Thought & Life in India iii. 63 The way of love and faith (bhakti-mārga)..superseded the other two ways of salvation—knowledge and works (jñāna-mārga and karma-mārga).

1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means xiii. 234 In India it is known as bhakti-marga, the path of devotional faith, as opposed to karma-marga, the path of duty or works, and jñana-marga, the path of knowledge.

1945 A. Huxley Let. 21 Jan. (1969) 513 The three types of religion enumerated in the Bhagavad Gita, (karma marga, the way of works or action; Bhakti marga, the way of devotion; and jnana marga, the way of knowledge) correspond precisely to the three extremes of somatotonic, viscerotonic and cerebrotonic temperament.

1963 Listener 28 Mar. 550/2 In earliest times, in pre-Buddhist texts such as the first Upanisads is described what later became known as Jnana-marga, or the way of knowledge, in which the realization of the identity of the individual self or soul with the Universal, the absolute, Brahma, was sought.