Pravrittatva, Pravṛttatva, Pravritta-tva: 3 definitions
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Pravrittatva means something in 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.
The Sanskrit term Pravṛttatva can be transliterated into English as Pravrttatva or Pravrittatva, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Kama-shastra (the science of Love-making)
Source: archive.org: The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana (Burton)Pravṛttatva (प्रवृत्तत्व) refers to “being practices (even by animals)” (i.e., “sexual activity”), according to the Vātsyāyana’s Kāmasūtra: a Sanskrit text from the 2nd century dealing with eroticism, sexuality and emotional fulfillment in life belonging to Kāmaśāstra (the ancient Indian science of love-making).—Accordingly, “[Objection]—Some learned men say that as Dharma is connected with things not belonging to this world, it is appropriately treated of in a book; and so also is Artha, because it is practised only by the application of proper means, and a knowledge of those means can only be obtained by study and from books. But Kāma being a thing which is practised (pravṛttatva) even by the brute creation, and which is to be found everywhere, does not want any work on the subject. [Answer]—This is not so. Sexual intercourse being a thing dependent on man and woman requires the application of proper means by them, and those means are to be learnt from the Kāma Śāstra. The non-application of proper means, which we see in the brute creation, is caused by their being unrestrained, and by the females among them only being fit for sexual intercourse at certain seasons and no more, and by their intercourse not being preceded by thought of any kind”
Kamashastra (कामशास्त्र, kāmaśāstra) deals with ancient Indian science of love-making, passion, emotions and other related topics dealing with the pleasures of the senses.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPravṛttatva (प्रवृत्तत्व):—[=pra-vṛtta-tva] [from pra-vṛtta > pra-vṛt] n. the having happened or occurred, [Jaimini]
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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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