Pratyakcetana, Pratyac-cetana: 4 definitions
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchPratyakcetana (प्रत्यक्चेतन):—adj. rightly intelligent [?(BALL.) Yogasūtra 1, 29]; genauer: dessen Denken (cetanā) auf sich zurückgewandt (pratyañc) ist.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungPratyakcetana (प्रत्यक्चेतन):—Adj. dessen Denken auf sich zurückgewandt ist.
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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Partial matches: Pratyac, Cetana, Pratyanc.
Full-text: Pratyancetana.
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