Parimanat, Parimāṇāt: 1 definition
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In Hinduism
Samkhya (school of philosophy)
Parimāṇāt (परिमाणात्, “non-pervasive”).—The word parimāṇāt denotes the spatia-temporal limitation of every effect. Neither before production, nor after annihilation an effect is found to appear. Hence, origination to annihilation is actually the period of duration of an effect. The period of duration of an effect being limited, all objects are considered as limited in space and time (paricchinna or parimita).
One may like to know, why it is not possible for the buddhi to be the root cause of the world? With a view to replying this objection, the term parimāṇāt was interpreted by Vācaspati in a different way. The term parimāṇāt for him, indicates parimita i.e. non-pervasive (avyāpakatva). As five gross elements (mahabhūtas), five subtle elements (tanmātras), ahaṃkāra and mahat (buddhi) etc are produced elements, so they have spatia-temporal limitation. For this reason, they are non-pervasive (avyāpi).
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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