Pratyakshajnana, Pratyakṣajñāna: 5 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Pratyakṣajñāna can be transliterated into English as Pratyaksajnana or Pratyakshajnana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryPratyakṣajñāna (प्रत्यक्षज्ञान).—n.
(-naṃ) Knowledge obtained by perception.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPratyakṣajñāna (प्रत्यक्षज्ञान):—[=praty-akṣa-jñāna] [from praty-akṣa] n. immediate perception, [Tarkasaṃgraha]
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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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusPratyakṣajñāna (ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷಜ್ಞಾನ):—
1) [noun] = ಪ್ರತ್ಯಕ್ಷ [pratyaksha]2 - 6.
2) [noun] (jain. phil.) the knowledge got without a medium (as a sense organ).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Source: unoes: Nepali-English DictionaryPratyakṣa-jñāna (प्रत्यक्ष-ज्ञान):—n. direct knowledge; sensory experience;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
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Partial matches: Pratyaksha, Jnana.
Full-text: Pratyaksh-gyaan, Pratyabhijna, Adhokshaja, Pratyaksha.
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Nirvikalpaka Pratyaksha (study) (by Sujit Roy)
Traces of Mysticism in Jainism (Study) (by Sadhvi Madhystha Prabha)
Epistemology (Jñāna)—Introduction < [Chapter 4 - Concepts of Jainism and Mysticism]
2.2. Traces of Mysticism in the Sthānāṅga < [Chapter 3 - Mysticism in Śramaṇic Literature]
Nyaya-Vaisheshika (critical and historical study) (by Aruna Rani)
Definition of Perception (pratyaksa) < [Chapter 3 - Theory of Pramanas (epistemology)]
The concept of Yoga in Yoga Upanishads (by Philomina T.L)
3. Three kinds of Prāmāṇas < [Chapter 2 - Principal Tenets of Yoga]
Siddhanta Sangraha of Sri Sailacharya (by E. Sowmya Narayanan)
Nyaya-Vaisheshika categories (Study) (by Diptimani Goswami)
Pramāṇa (1): Pratyakṣa or Perception < [Chapter 2 - Salient features of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika System]