Buddhi
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buddhi · intellect
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San Hyan Tattvajnana
The intellect/discriminative faculty, a coarsening of the triguṇa, aware only of good and evil, subdivided by which guṇa dominates it.
The *buddhi* is only aware of good and evil.
The *ahaṅkāra* and the *buddhi* are called *pramāṇa viśeṣa* (distinguished authority).
As for the three characteristics of *ahaṅkāra* that emerge from *buddhi*, they are what engage with *sattva*, *rajas*, and *tamas*.
Vrhaspatitattva
Intellect, emergent from the triguṇa, encompassing dharma, jñāna, vairāgya, aiśvarya, their opposites, and further subcategories of error, contentment, and perfection.
From the *triguṇa* emerges *buddhi* (intellect).
Such are the functions of *buddhi* that you must know.