pratyaksha
प्रत्यक्ष pratyakṣaPerception: direct knowledge through the contact of the senses with their objects; the first of the pramanas.
Where this term appears
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
The usual candidates were perception ( pratyaksha ), inference ( anumana ), and verbal testimony, especially scripture ( shabda ).
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
He is the pratyaksha devata , the perceptible deity, the divine that is not hidden behind an image or a story but crosses the sky every day in plain sight, giving light and warmth and the very possibility of li…
- What is Mimamsa? Philosophy
There is pratyaksha , perception; anumana , inference; upamana , comparison, the recognition of a thing from a likeness previously described; shabda , reliable verbal testimony, which for an orthodox school inc…
- What is Nyaya? Philosophy
The first is pratyaksha , perception, defined as the cognition born of the contact of a sense with its object, non-verbal, non-erratic, and determinate (1.1.4).