Pratitantra, Prati-tantra: 5 definitions

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Pratitantra means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Hinduism

General definition (in Hinduism)

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Source: Digital Library of India: Srimad Rahasyatrayasara of Sri Vedantadesika

The word Pratitantra means a doctrine or feature which is peculiar and distinctive to a certain (philosophical or religious) system exclusive of all others. Here it may be asked what the doctrie that is most important and unique to our system of Vedanta is. It is the doctrine which maintains that the relationship between Iswara (Īśvara) and the world of sentient beings and non-sentient things, is that between the soul and the body. (Another is the doctrine that every word, whatever its ordinary denotation may be, such as ‘cow’ “man” and the like, refers ultimately to Iswara who is within them as their innermost soul).

In Buddhism

Buddhist philosophy

Source: Google Books: A History of Indian Logic (Buddhist Philosophy)

Pratitantra (प्रतितन्त्र) or Pratitantrasiddhānta refers to a “tenet accepted by a particular school” (within a debate), according to Upāyakauśalyahṛdaya, an ancient work on the art of debate composed by Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna.—The siddhānta (tenet, truth or conclusion) is of four kinds, viz. (1) that accepted by all the schools (sarvatantra siddhānta), (2) that accepted by a particular school (pratitantra siddhānta), (3) that accepted hypothetically (adhikaraṇa siddhānta) and (4) that which is implied or accepted on assumption (abhyupagama siddhānta).

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Sanskrit dictionary

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Pratitantra (प्रतितन्त्र).—Adv. n.

(-ntraṃ) 1. According to each Tantra. 2. According to each opinion, &c. E. prati and tantra a doctrine.

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

Pratitantra (प्रतितन्त्र):—[prati-tantra] (ntraṃ) adv. According to the Tantra, or to each opinion.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Pratitantra (प्रतितन्त्र) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Paḍitaṃta.

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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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