mula-prakriti
मूलप्रकृति mula-prakrti'Root nature': the primordial creative substance of the cosmos, identified in Shakta theology with the Great Goddess herself.
Where this term appears
- The Goddess Who Would Not Be Forbidden Treatise
She is Adi Parashakti , the primordial Power, mula-prakriti , the root of nature, the Goddess from whom even Shiva proceeds.
- What is Samkhya? Philosophy
That terminus is mula-prakriti , root-nature, the unmanifest ground from which all else evolves and into which, at the close of each cosmic cycle, all else dissolves.