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.
] From the inversion [of agency onto prakṛti follows] the non-agency [of puruṣa];
likewise the establishment of [puruṣa's] otherness from the three-constituent [prakṛti].
] From the difference [in beings] of [everything] from birth down to the organs, they [i.
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.
The *pradhāna* (*prakṛti*) is the night.
The revered *prakṛti* is called the night.
The revered *prakṛti* is said to be the mother;