prakṛti
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
pradhāna · mother · nature · the eight prakṛtis · the night · the unmanifest · the unmanifest (avyakta) · the wife · vyakta
in the texts
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
The unmanifest primal nature (prakṛti), source of transformation, contrasted with puruṣa and also implicated in one form of bondage.
] The {{prakṛti|nature}}-bondage is the absorption into prakṛti of one who conceives [it] as the supreme;
] Existence [of prakṛti], oneness, purposefulness, being-for-another's-sake, otherness, non-agency [of puruṣa], conjunction, disjunction, the plurality of {{puruṣa|Selves}}, and the persistence of the body [as] residual operation (śeṣavṛtti)—[these are the ten].
likewise the establishment of [puruṣa's] otherness from the three-constituent [prakṛti].
San Hyan Mahajnana
Prakṛti, primordial nature, repeatedly personified as wife, mother, and night, and identified as the manifest (vyakta) and ultimately unreal principle in contrast to puruṣa.
*Know that the vyakta is prakṛti, and they know the avyakta is puruṣa.
The *pradhāna* (*prakṛti*, primordial nature) is said to be the one wife.
*The wife is clearly prakṛti, the sons are the guṇas;