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pratyaksha

प्रत्यक्ष pratyakṣa

Perception: 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).

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