This book is the first monographic study of "prakrti." It traces the history of the word "prakrti," the word chosen by the modern North Indian languages to translate the English word 'nature, ' through the texts of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain systems of religious thought. "Prakrti" is one of the central metaphysical principles in the religious traditions of Hinduism, especially in the very influential Samkhya and Yoga traditions. The second part of the book gives a systematic analysis of this important principle in the Proto-Samkhya, Samkhya, and Samkhya-Yoga texts. "Prakrti" in the Samkhya and Yoga systems is the ultimate material principle and thus the substratum ("dharmin") from which manifest, in the presence of the self ("purusa"), the gross and subtle bodies including the mental organs of all living beings from the leaf of grass to the powerful gods. Everything that becomes manifest...
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