The Sanskrit term Akartṛbhāva can be transliterated into English as Akartrbhava or Akartribhava, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Samkhya (school of philosophy)

Source: Shodhganga: Prakrti and purusa in Samkhyakarika an analytical review

Akartṛbhāva (अकर्तृभाव, “non-active”) refers to “non-activeness or non-agency”:—Puruṣa is non-active because of its being anāmiśra (non-mixable), i.e. being pure consciousness in nature. The mixable objects like milk etc. (dugdhādi) are possessed of activity. Activity denotes transformation (pariṇāma). As puruṣa is anāmiśra, argues Yuktidīpikā, there is no transformation in puruṣa. Therefore, puruṣa is non-active (akartṛbhāva).

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): (samkhya philosophy)

Akartṛbhāva (अकर्तृभाव) refers to “(the state of) non-agency”, according to the Sāṅkhyakārikā.—In Brahmanical literature, udāsīna often means a neutral person, such as in the compound; “friends, neutrals and enemies”. [...] Also, udāsīna has been used in the Sāṅkhyakārikā to qualify the individual soul (puruṣa). After describing the qualities of the Puruṣa as the state of witnessing, isolation, neutrality, awareness and non-agency (akartṛbhāva) in Kārikā 19, the Sāṅkhyakārikā (20) then qualifies Puruṣa as udāsīna.

context information

Samkhya (सांख्य, Sāṃkhya) is a dualistic school of Hindu philosophy (astika) and is closeley related to the Yoga school. Samkhya philosophy accepts three pramanas (‘proofs’) only as valid means of gaining knowledge. Another important concept is their theory of evolution, revolving around prakriti (matter) and purusha (consciousness).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Akartṛbhāva (अकर्तृभाव).—the state of non-agent; द्रष्टृत्वमकर्तृ- भावश्च (draṣṭṛtvamakartṛ- bhāvaśca) | Sāṅkhya. K.19.

Derivable forms: akartṛbhāvaḥ (अकर्तृभावः).

Akartṛbhāva is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms akartṛ and bhāva (भाव).

context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Akartri, Bhava.

Full-text: Non-agency.

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