The Sanskrit term Draṣṭṛtva can be transliterated into English as Drastrtva or Drashtritva, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Samkhya (school of philosophy)

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

Draṣṭṛtva (द्रष्टृत्व, “spectator-hood”).—That which is not conscious, can not be a spectator. Puruṣa is draṣṭā (spectator), because it is conscious. That means the spectator-hood (draṣṭṛtva) of the puruṣa can be inferred, from its characteristic—consciousness (cetanava), through a vyātireki type of inference. Characterizing puruṣa by draṣṭṛtva, it is signified that by the grace of consciousness, the guṇas of the nature of pleasure, pain and indifference constitue bodies as causes and effects, and accordingly, the neutral puruṣa experiences these, owing to proximity, being ascribed with agency of experience.

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

Draṣṭṛtva (द्रष्टृत्व) refers to “(the state of) awareness”, 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 (draṣṭṛtva) and non-agency 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).

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

draṣṭṛtva (द्रष्टृत्व).—n S The faculty or power of seeing. 2 Preeminent power of vision.

context information

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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Draṣṭṛtva (द्रष्टृत्व).—[draṣṭṛ + tva], n. The faculty of seeing, [Bhāgavata-Purāṇa, (ed. Burnouf.)] 3, 31, 46.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Draṣṭṛtva (द्रष्टृत्व):—[=draṣṭṛ-tva] [from draṣṭṛ > draṣṭavya] n. the faculty of seeing, [Kapila; Sāṃkhyakārikā; Bhāgavata-purāṇa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Drashtritva in German

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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Drashtri, Tva.

Full-text: Awareness, Ishvara.

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