guṇa
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fourteenfold quality · quality · rajas · sattva · tamas · the qualities · the three guṇas
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Abhisamayālaṅkāravivaraṇa (Sanskrit)
// The destruction of the power of the Māras and the rest is the fourteenfold quality.
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Paramārthasāra
The three constituent qualities of prakṛti, which perform all action and, through false association, appear to bind the conscious self.
They, through the fault of association with the {{guṇa|qualities}}s, [are] as it were bound — like grains of corn by their own husks — and obtain [repeated] birth, so long as they are not burnt by the fire of {{jñāna|knowledge}}.
The aggregate of instruments [made] of the {{guṇa|the three qualities}}s, though composed of {{māyā|deluding creative power}} and insentient, performs actions;
Having dispelled the thicket of {{māyā|deluding power}} composed of the {{guṇa|qualities}}s, as the thousand-rayed [sun dispels] darkness, the {{puruṣa|conscious self}}, ranging within and without, becomes [homogeneous] like a solid block of rock-salt.
Tarkasaṃgraha
Second category; twenty-four qualities inhering in substances, from colour through disposition.
dravya (substance), guṇa (quality), karma (motion/action), sāmānya (universal), viśeṣa (ultimate particularity), samavāya (inherence), and abhāva (absence) — these are the seven padārtha (categories, knowables).
Colour, taste, smell, touch, number, magnitude, separateness, conjunction, disjunction, remoteness, proximity, heaviness, fluidity, viscidity, sound, cognition, pleasure, pain, desire, aversion, effort, merit, demerit, and disposition — these are the twenty-four qualities.
Abhisamayālaṅkāravivaraṇa
The third of the eleven dharmas: fourteen excellences attained by the power of cultivating the applications.
// The destruction of the power of the Māras and the rest is the fourteenfold quality.
the qualities (guṇa);
**II.B.i.3**
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The three constituent strands (sattva, rajas, tamas) of prakṛti whose interplay produces and characterizes all manifest existence.
It operates through the three guṇa (sattva, rajas, tamas) (guṇas) and through their commingling [and] by transformation, like water [taking on different forms], according to the distinctions [arising] from the particular dominance of each respective guṇa.
The guṇa (sattva, rajas, tamas) (guṇas) have the natures of pleasure, pain, and dejection respectively;
And because the effect is of the nature of the qualities of its cause, the vyakta / avyakta (unmanifest) too is [thereby] established [as triguṇa].