Prarabdhavada, Prārabdhavāda: 1 definition

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Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

prārabdhavāda (प्रारब्धवाद).—m S The doctrine, or the maintaining of it, of destiny or fate: as opp. to prayatna- vāda or pauruṣavāda. See daivavāda. The word may serve to express Predestinarianism (the Deity being held to be the determiner or ordainer of one's allotment, although one's acquired desert is the occasion--See brahmarēkhā) yet, still better, Fatalism.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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