Dravyatva: 6 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchDravyatva (द्रव्यत्व):—(von 1. dravya) n. Substanzialität: vahniranuṣṇo dravyatvāt [TARKAS. 48.] [Bhāṣāpariccheda 23. 27.]
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Dravyatva (द्रव्यत्व):—[SARVADARŚANAS. 105, 17. 106, 5. fgg.] [107, 5. 132, 8.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungDravyatva (द्रव्यत्व):—n. Substanzialität.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Starts with: Dravyatvajatimanavicara.
Full-text: Dravyatvajatimanavicara, Kriyavattva, Common Attributes, Aparasamanya, Samavayikaranatva, Parasamanya, Gunavattva, Ap, Samanya.
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Search found 15 books and stories containing Dravyatva, Dravya-tva; (plurals include: Dravyatvas, tvas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories (Study) (by Diptimani Goswami)
The Nature of Substance (Dravya) < [Chapter 3 - Dravya (Substance)]
Samavāya < [Chapter 6 - Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika theory of Relation]
Types of Sāmānya < [Chapter 5 - Sāmānya and Viśeṣa]
Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary (by Nandalal Sinha)
Sūtra 1.2.5 (Genera-Species) < [Chapter 2 - Of Genus and Species]
Sūtra 7.2.27 (Combination is different from...) < [Chapter 2 - Of Number, Separateness, Conjunction, etc.]
Sūtra 2.2.7 (Like Air, Time is a substance, and is eternal) < [Chapter 2 - Of the Five Bhūtas, Time, and Space]
Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 5.2 - Classification of substances (dravya) < [Chapter 5 - The Non-living Substances]
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari (by K. A. Subramania Iyer)
Verse 2.69 < [Book 2 - Vākya-kāṇḍa]
Verse 3.3.14 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (3): Sambandha-samuddeśa (On Relation)]
Verse 3.9.19 < [Book 3 - Pada-kāṇḍa (9): Kāla-samuddeśa (On Time)]
The Tattvasangraha [with commentary] (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 846-847 < [Chapter 15 - Examination of Samavāya (‘subsistence’)]
Verse 1787-1790 < [Chapter 21 - Examination of the doctrine of ‘Traikālya’]
Jain Science and Spirituality (by Medhavi Jain)
1.2. Six Universal Qualities of Substance < [Chapter 5 - Science in Jainism]