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pravṛttim

activity, exertion, efficacy, function, Kap. ; Sāṃkhyak. ; MBh. &c. (in the Nyāya one of the 82 Prameya s, IW. 63 )

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1. pravṛtti

activity, exertion, efficacy, function, Kap. ; Sāṃkhyak. ; MBh. &c. (in the Nyāya one of the 82 Prameya s, IW. 63 )

2. pravṛtti

active life (as opp. to nivṛtti [ q.v. ] and to contemplative devotion, and defined as consisting of the wish to act, knowledge of the means, and accomplishment of the object), W.

3. pravṛtti

giving or devoting one's self to, prosecution of, course or tendency towards, inclination or predilection for ( loc. or comp. ), Rājat. ; Hit. ; Sāh.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.